dovecot - Jan 2003 - wierdness with mailboxes

Mail has always been the bane of my sys-admin life. I've been looking
long and hard for a small, C-based, simple IMAP server that worked well
with maildirs *and* mboxes and nothing else. wu-imap is so bloated and
rife with decrepit, cross-platform, insecure code that I avoid it for
any new servers. Courier-imap only supports maildirs but has some
wierdnesses that I've come to live with. dovecot promises to be exactly
what I'm looking for with just the right footprint and feature-set.

=)

I was surprised when I tried creating subfolders of mbox's. woohoo! The
only problem is that dovecot manages to rename the parent, appending a
'.'. So when we have:

folder

we now have:

folder.
folder.subfolder

Evolution freaks out and thinks it can't store folders in 'folder.'
and
ends up with two subfolders: null and subfolder, which can contain
messages. If I rename the parent folder without the trailing '.',
everything works as expected. I'm trying to test some other imap clients
now.

d!
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On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 03:35, David E. Storey wrote:
> I was surprised when I tried creating subfolders of mbox's. woohoo! The
> only problem is that dovecot manages to rename the parent, appending a
> '.'. So when we have:
> 
> folder
> 
> we now have:
> 
> folder.
> folder.subfolder
Huh? This doesn't really make any sense to me :) mboxes use '/' as
hierarchy separator, and I couldn't create subfolders to mboxes with
evolution in any way. With maildir I didn't see any problems.