IMAP Escape character for "[" and "]"

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Mon Sep 1 14:15:13 CEST 2008


Saim,

On Monday 01 September 2008 12:47, Saim Kim wrote:
> Bernhard Reiter schrieb:
> > On Friday 29 August 2008 12:31, Saim Kim wrote:
> >  
> >
> >> after I had another issue with wrong freebusy information being shown I
> >> tried to delete the freebusy cache and the automatic cache regeneration.
> >> But it fails because it can't find several folders which were delete
> >> with a name starting with [UNSHARED]. Those folders were generated by
> >> Toltec after ACL changes of IMAP folders.
> >>    
> >
> > "[UNSHARED]" folder should get created by Toltec, when somebody else
> > deletes the folder this user has access to, then I do get synced up
> > to the server and are up there as well.
> >  
>
> Yes, that's what happened.
>
> >> The folders were deleted from
> >> the Horde interface of the user. They are not shown anymore and are not
> >> present under /kolab/var/imapd/spool/domain/blabla/...
> >>    
> >> Still the automatic cache regeneration is looking for them.
> >>    
> >
> > There is no automatic cache regeneration on the server.
> > Clients have to issue a trigger URL. Check the apache log to see
> > which client trigges this. Or are you refering to the manual
> > recreation of the whole cache?
> >  
>
> Yes, I was refering to the manual cache regeneration.

Hmm, looks like a defect in there then.
Can you help reproducing it and file and issue in the tracker?

> >> I tried to recreate the folders with cyrreconstruct but it fails on the
> >> folder name (I tried creating folders with a simple name and it worked
> >> fine). I have the feeling that I have to use special escape characters
> >> for "[" and "]" just like for German umlauts. Any help? Thanks!
>
> Are there any escape characters for "[" and "]"? So that I can delete
> the [UNSHARED] folders manually under the cyradm interface.

There probably are, I do not know them by heart.
Hmm, if they are listed like this, you probably would only need to protect
it against the shell, so single or double quotes might help.

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