Bug 117470

Summary:	Moving a folder to IMAP with . in it causes incorrect folder creation
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	Craig Bradney <cbradney>
Component:	IMAP	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	bjoern, konrad_miller, magnus.merkel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.9
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Craig Bradney 2005-12-01 23:13:49 UTC

Version:           1.9 (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 3.4.4-r1 
OS:                Linux

I moved a folder named like "myfolder.name" to my IMAP server. It created a folder named like "myfolder" with a sub folder called "name". The "myfolder" was greyed out. It should have warned me/offered to rename, or perhaps theres a name vs folder IMAP options where the folder name is not the same as the directory structure?

Comment 1 Konrad Miller 2005-12-01 23:20:36 UTC

Hi - same error here. Suse 9.3 with kmail 1.9 (supplementary). Maybe there is a way to escape the '.' so that it can be used as a folder-name in an imap directory?
I tried to move a folder with some Emails inside it - it was greyed out as described above, with the addition that i couldnt delete it through kmail anymore...

HTH,
Konrad (dfi)

Comment 2 Konrad Miller 2005-12-02 09:18:42 UTC

Some other characters can't be moved to an imap folder either. They throw an error though. "(" and ")" for instance.

Konrad

Comment 3 Ismail Onur Filiz 2006-04-10 03:32:33 UTC

*** Bug 121532 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Andy Goossens 2007-12-05 22:24:52 UTC

I can confirm this with KMail 1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405).

I experienced this bug today while I was moving local folders to an IMAP server at work. Some of those folder names contained a dot.

There was no way to fix the resulting problem in KMail. Whatever I did, the IMAP server complained about every operation I wanted to perform on this folder. I had to use another IMAP client to fix the wrong folder structure on the server.

Comment 5 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-24 01:42:27 UTC

Cannot reproduce in KDE 4.3 anymore. Creating a folder "mail.box" worked without a problem.