Hi. Uhm... yeah as the topic implies I want to have . (dots) in my folder names... Unfortunately dovecot's maildirmake hasn't a -f switch as the one from courier/maildrop, but that one in turn is buggy[0] and doesn't encode any characters at all. In principle, maildir++ should allow[1] having (encoded) dots in folder names,... but I don't quite understand how the encoding actually works, cause UTF-7 seems to be already the encoded (without padding and such)... but . is . in UTF-7 as well. Does dovecot support this? At least my mail clients (well I only tried Evolution so far which sucks in so many areas)... couldn't create it... but I guess it's rather a stupid client issue. Anyone knows how it would be encoded? Interestingly, and this might be actually an inssue in doveocot when I create maildirs with non-ASCII chars without encoding these, e.g. maildir/.M?nchen/ (instead of the correctly encoded (.M&APw-nchen) Dovecot seems to "export" these to the clients,... at least Evolution shows it in the list of subscribable folders (even correctly as "M?nchen")... but it doesn't allow me to actually subscribe to it. Cheers & thx, Chris. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709555 [1] http://www.courier-mta.org/maildir.html#id351803 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5113 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20130524/a153728c/attachment-0001.bin>
Maybe the whole thing IS actually also a dovecot issue... When trying to create a folder with a dot with thunderbird (which doesn't simply forbid this)... it actually transmits the folder name to dovecote (e.g. "kernel.org")... but dovecot then literally takes this over and creates .kernel.org, i.e. no encoding and thus org becomes a subfolder. Cheers, Chris. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5113 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20130524/6e4e2195/attachment.bin>
On 2013-05-23 18:41, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:> Uhm... yeah as the topic implies I want to have . (dots) in my folder > names... > Unfortunately dovecot's maildirmake hasn't a -f switch as the one from > courier/maildrop, but that one in turn is buggy[0] and doesn't encode > any characters at all.Does adding LAYOUT=fs to mail_location, which makes Dovecot use a dir hierarchy instead of dot-prefixing, make this possible? P.S., You don't need to use a maildirmake script with Dovecot--it will automatically create the Maildir on the first mail delivery (assuming you're using the deliver agent). -- Please reply on list.
Am 24.05.2013 03:41, schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer:> Hi. > > Uhm... yeah as the topic implies I want to have . (dots) in my folder > names... > Unfortunately dovecot's maildirmake hasn't a -f switch as the one from > courier/maildrop, but that one in turn is buggy[0] and doesn't encode > any characters at all. > > In principle, maildir++ should allow[1] having (encoded) dots in folder > names,... but I don't quite understand how the encoding actually works, > cause UTF-7 seems to be already the encoded (without padding and > such)... but . is . in UTF-7 as well. > > Does dovecot support this? > At least my mail clients (well I only tried Evolution so far which sucks > in so many areas)... couldn't create it... but I guess it's rather a > stupid client issue. > Anyone knows how it would be encoded? > > > Interestingly, and this might be actually an inssue in doveocot when I > create maildirs with non-ASCII chars without encoding these, e.g. > maildir/.M?nchen/ (instead of the correctly encoded (.M&APw-nchen) > Dovecot seems to "export" these to the clients,... at least Evolution > shows it in the list of subscribable folders (even correctly as > "M?nchen")... but it doesn't allow me to actually subscribe to it. > > > Cheers & thx, > Chris. > > > > > [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709555 > [1] http://www.courier-mta.org/maildir.html#id351803 >look http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Listescape Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstra?e 15, 81669 M?nchen Sitz der Gesellschaft: M?nchen, Amtsgericht M?nchen: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein