Right now, trying to create folders with "/" or "." in their
name can yield
strange results, because Dovecot simply turns every occurrence of the current
folder hierarchy separator in a folder name given by the client into a
"."
(or so it seems). If the folder separator isn't ".", clients can
try to
create folders with names containing ".", and Dovecot will convert
those "."
back to the folder separator on listing. It will look like there is an
intermediate folder, but Dovecot is unaware of it. If the folder separator
isn't "/", clients can try to create folders with names containing
"/", which
will simply fail.
Judging from to http://www.courier-mta.org/?maildir.html, Courier encodes
"."
and "/" in the names of the directories the folders are stored as on
disk.
This means that that of "." and "/" that isn't the
folder separator can be
used in folder names, but it also means that Dovecot has to be able to
perform the recoding. Has any thought been given to this?
--
Magnus Holmgren holmgren at lysator.liu.se
(No Cc of list mail needed, thanks)
"Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better for
Scrabble (50 point bonus for clearing your rack)" -- Dave Evans
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