dovecot - Aug 2008 - Sieve fileinto a subfolder fails -- more info, possible workaround

After looking at the way Maildir represents subfolders, I changed
the sieve line from

        fileinto "Lists/NCCC";

to

	fileinto "Lists.NCCC";

and now it files into the NCCC subfolder of Lists as I wanted.  I'm
not sure whether this is the expected behavior or just an accident
that plugging that string into the file name happens to result in the right
name.

I haven't tried, but if it's just passing the fileinto argument along
with minimal inspection, I'm afraid the answer might be use
"Lists/NCCC" if mail is in mbox format but "Lists.NCCC" if
mail is in
Maildirs, and it certainly seems that users editing their sieve
scripts shouldn't have to know that.

     	 
Rich


dovecot -n shows:

# 1.0.10: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S 
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: maildir:/arda/export/mail/%u/Maildir
auth default:
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:05 -0700, Rich McAllister
wrote:
> After looking at the way Maildir represents subfolders, I changed
> the sieve line from
> 
>         fileinto "Lists/NCCC";
> 
> to
> 
> 	fileinto "Lists.NCCC";
> 
> and now it files into the NCCC subfolder of Lists as I wanted.  I'm
> not sure whether this is the expected behavior or just an accident
> that plugging that string into the file name happens to result in the right
> name.
> 
> I haven't tried, but if it's just passing the fileinto argument
along
> with minimal inspection, I'm afraid the answer might be use
> "Lists/NCCC" if mail is in mbox format but "Lists.NCCC"
if mail is in
> Maildirs, and it certainly seems that users editing their sieve
> scripts shouldn't have to know that.
Change your namespace configuration to use '/' separator and it's
always
'/'. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces

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