Outlook IMAP SELECT

[Simon Tyler]

Just noticed Outlook issuing an IMAP SELECT of the form:

000U SELECT ""

This refers to a mailbox with no name whatever that means. My server cannot
handle such mailboxes. No mailbox with this empty name was returned in the
LIST Outlook issued just before.

Any idea why outlook is doing this?

Simon

 

[Pete Maclean]

Just noticed Outlook issuing an IMAP SELECT of the form:

000U SELECT ""

This refers to a mailbox with no name whatever that means. My server
cannot
handle such mailboxes. No mailbox with this empty name was returned in the
LIST Outlook issued just before.

Any idea why outlook is doing this?

Could it be that the user's list of subscribed folders includes one with an
empty name?

Pete Maclean

 

[Simon Tyler]

That was my first thought but it is not the case.

It issued a

LIST "" "%"

and got some folders and then a

LIST "" "%.%"

and got no folders.

The next command was the select.

This sequence is not the only one that causes this and we have also seen it
without the two LIST commands.

Simon

 

[Pete Maclean]

I have an IMAP server that I routinely test with Outlook and I have never
seen it try to select a mailbox with an empty name. May I ask what version
of Outlook are you seeing this behaviour with?

Pete

 

[Simon Tyler]

I have Outlook 2003 SP1. I am using the Gordano Messaging Suite IMAP server
if that makes any difference.

I think it would take someone with knowledge of the Outlook code to throw
much light on this one.

Simon