dovecot - Jan 2007 - Ampersand in Folder names causing folders to disappear?

Hi All,

Dovecot 1.0.rc7

Not sure if this is a problem with Outlook, or with Dovecot, or to do
with encoding in Linux.

Whenever a user enters an ampersand into an IMAP folder name, it
dissapears from outlook. These folders appear on the ext3 filesystem as
&- for example

drwx------   5 mailusers mailusers   4096 2006-10-10 17:54
.INBOX.Networks.London Networks.NDCs.WH&-P joint working

Any pointers or previous experience anyone has of this would be very
gratefully received.

Regards,
Mark

Mark Adams wrote:
> Whenever a user enters an ampersand into an IMAP folder name, it
> dissapears from outlook. 
Don't use ampersands in file or foldernames; they are reserved characters in
Windows (used to signify what character is the "shortcut" key) and
cause
frequent headaches like this...

John

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