Prohibit dots in folder names

Steffen Kaiser
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:35:58 -0000

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On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> On 10.01.2017 17:38, Marek Grondecki wrote:
>> Hello Dovecot Community,
>>
>> I am using Dovecot 2.2.13-12~deb8u1 (Debian Jessie).
>>
>> separator = /
>> listescape plugin is NOT active
>> LAYOUT=fs is NOT active
>>
>> I would like to prohibit a creation of folders with dot "."
in the
>> names -
>> so creation of a folder "foo.bar" should NOT be possible.
>> Currently, when I create "foo.bar" in Outlook 2013 it will be
created
>> but won't be
>> synchronised with the mail server - Outlook shows it as "foo.bar
(Only
>> this computer)".
>> Ideally the user should receive an error message informing that
"the
>> folder foo.bar
>> could not be created."
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marek Grondecki
>
> Are you sure the folder is actually created in dovecot instance?
> Can you run doveadm mailbox status -u username foo.bar?

Yes, they are. If you issue

* create t.t.t.t.t.t.t

the complete set of t's is created. (I'm using Maildir as backend.)

This case is what the listescape plugin is to help. I don't use it myself,
however.

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Steffen Kaiser
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