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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: seeing no imap folders
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 00:56:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilu65hxdpaj.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c2dc332c.0311061453.7a027130@posting.google.com>

mail@vrtprj.com (Rainer Volz) writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote 
>> The server says there are no mailboxes on the server.  Perhaps it is
>> buggy and doesn't understand "*%", although I'm not sure how to work
>> around that.  Try telnet'ing manually to port 143 on the server and
>> log in and type '. LIST "" "*"' instead.
>
> Simon, you were right, this server didn't like the "%*". With "*" I
> got the folder listing in telnet. Any tip how to tell Gnus that? I
> played around with "nnimap-list-pattern", but that one seems to have a
> different purpose.

Try searching for "%\"" in imap.el and replace it with "\"".  And
report it to your IMAP server administrator/vendor, so the bug can be
fixed...


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