[Users] [Bug 4839] New: IMAP: Problems handling slashes in folder names

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https://www.claws-mail.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4839

            Bug ID: 4839
           Summary: IMAP: Problems handling slashes in folder names
           Product: Claws Mail
           Version: GIT
          Hardware: PC
                OS: FreeBSD
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P3
         Component: Other
          Assignee: users at lists.claws-mail.org
          Reporter: claws-mail at sjh.sh

If the hierarchy separator is not a slash, and there is a slash in the folder
name, Claws does weird things.

Specifically, it appears to treat slashes as a hierarchy separator regardless,
and when sending messages to the server, converts slashes to the hierarchy
separator.

Basically, it looks like it replaces the hierarchy separator with a slash for
internal use, then replaces slashes with hierarchy separator for messages to
the server.

So if the hierarchy separator is a pipe, the folder "Language|C/C++" would be
interpreted as three path elements, "Language", "C", and "C++", and Claws would
try to fetch from the "Language|C|C++" folder.

There is an imap server running at nix.synchro.net which supports a guest user
(pw: guest) that shows this in action.

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