[25336] in Athena Bugs
Re: pine and the IMAP server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Dec 4 15:39:03 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: headrick@mit.edu
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On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 15:34, Matthew Headrick wrote:
> The mail server seems to have a bug that makes it flip out if you try to
> give a mail folder a name with a period in it.
That's presumably because "." is the path separator on this IMAP server.
I can see how this is annoying to you, but I don't think it constitutes
a bug. Every component of the system is acting as it ought to, although
I suppose there's an argument to be made that pine ought to encode
periods in the from address when converting it to a folder name.
