Hello Becki, On 24.04.20 17:56, Admin Beckspaced wrote:> what sort of troubles did you run into with the dot '.' as namespace separator?disadvantages could be: - shared folders with dots in user names - if you want to use dots in folder names Whenever possible I use '/'. Kind regards, Markus
thanks a lot for your input! So I better use '/' then ;) Greetings Becki Am 24.04.2020 um 19:10 schrieb Markus Winkler:> Hello Becki, > > On 24.04.20 17:56, Admin Beckspaced wrote: >> what sort of troubles did you run into with the dot '.' as namespace >> separator? > > disadvantages could be: > > - shared folders with dots in user names > - if you want to use dots in folder names > > Whenever possible I use '/'. > > Kind regards, > Markus >
On 24.04.20 17:56, Admin Beckspaced wrote:>>> what sort of troubles did you run into with the dot '.' as namespace >>> separator? >> >> disadvantages could be: >> >> - shared folders with dots in user names >> - if you want to use dots in folder names >>What disadvantages are when using '/' as namespace separator? Why is '.' default (at least in .deb packages) if it is worse then '/' ? Doesn't it, in the end, all come to translation from IMAP names (user,folder) to OS filesystem names within dovecot (at some benchmark tests expense) ? :-)
On 24 Apr 2020, at 12:19, Admin Beckspaced <admin at beckspaced.com> wrote:> So I better use '/' then ?Only if you plan on having shared folders with . in the name or your users for some reason require having periods in the names of IMAP folders. Both of these cases are not impossible, but seem to be extremely unlikely so far. -- "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "I think so, Brain, but if we give peas a chance, won't the lima beans feel left out??