dovecot - Jul 2003 - hierarchy_sep

Hi Timo,

I would like to add another naming scheme to dovecot to recognize
maildir folders:

As of today:
~/Maildir/.foo
~/Maildir/.foo.bar

I would like to add:
~/Maildir/foo
~/Maildir/foo/bar

I had a quick look at the code (very clean, I am impressed!) and I saw
struct mail_storage, with field hierarchy_sep.

I think I cannot just set hierarchy_sep to '/', because /foo would start
from the root of the filesystem instead of being relative to ~/Maildir.

Do you have any suggestions on the cleaner way of doing it? Or maybe do you
think it is wrong to depart from '.' for some reason?

thanks
Marco

On Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003, at 22:00 Europe/Helsinki, molter at tin.it wrote:
> I think I cannot just set hierarchy_sep to '/', because /foo would 
> start from the root of the filesystem instead of being relative to 
> ~/Maildir.
>
> Do you have any suggestions on the cleaner way of doing it? Or maybe 
> do you think it is wrong to depart from '.' for some reason?
Well .. The '.' is currently pretty much hardcoded there in multiple 
places. I was going to make the separator that clients see 
configurable, and also support changing the real filesystem separator 
by modifying some single #define in sources..

If you wanted to change it to '/', I guess it would mostly work but you 
might have to create subdirectories sometimes. For example client could 
create "a/b/c/d" mailbox even if "a" didn't exist. Also
you'd have to
get the LIST code from mbox since it's very different in maildir++.