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...dling on some macOS Mail >> accounts. > > Did it change anything on Dovecot disk/storage or is the IMAP separator just > "virtual" - ephemeral ? Changing the separator won't fix anything that already exists. You should see nonsense folders in the form of '.folder\2esubfolder? there that cannot be worked with in any way. I manually moved the contents of these to their properly named ('.folder.subfolder?) variants - on disk. -F

Hi all, does anybody here use MacOS (Catalina) Mail, who can confirm that subfolders (i.e. folders inside folders) work for them? It seems that I cannot create/access Maildir subfolders at all. Subfolders created in Mail show up as '.folder\2esubfolder' on disk, suggesting that Apple Mail is URL-coding the dot separator before it passes it onto Dovecot. No such translation takes place when interpreting the IMAP tree though, resulting in subfolders rendered as plain entries with the dot separator preserved. Subfolders can be created from else...

...y here use MacOS (Catalina) Mail, who can confirm that subfolders (i.e. folders inside folders) work for them? Yes, works fine on Catalina (and, if you're curious, Big Sur). > It seems that I cannot create/access Maildir subfolders at all. Subfolders created in Mail show up as '.folder\2esubfolder' on disk, suggesting that Apple Mail is URL-coding the dot separator before it passes it onto Dovecot. No such translation takes place when interpreting the IMAP tree though, resulting in subfolders rendered as plain entries with the dot separator preserved. That is odd, but I can't give y...

...>> accounts. > > > > Did it change anything on Dovecot disk/storage or is the IMAP separator just > > "virtual" - ephemeral ? > > Changing the separator won't fix anything that already exists. You should see nonsense folders in the form of '.folder\2esubfolder? there that cannot be worked with in any way. I manually moved the contents of these to their properly named ('.folder.subfolder?) variants - on disk. > I was asking because the section "Hierarchy separators" in https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/namespace/ somewhat imp...

> On 14. Oct 2020, at 14.20, @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote: > > On 14 Oct 2020, at 04:24, Sami Ketola <sami at ketola.io> wrote: >> On 14. Oct 2020, at 12.51, Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote: >>> Those Mac clients who do not use nested folders do not seem to be >>> affected. That is, I've already suggested to the Mac Mail user

14. 10. 2020 v 11:28, Markus Winkler <ml at irmawi.de>: > > Hi Victor, > > On 14.10.20 04:36, Victor Sudakov wrote: >> Do you think I can change the hierarchy separator in the "inbox" >> namespace without breaking other clients and the mail layout on disk, >> losing mail etc? > > I personally would try to avoid such a change (really IMHO),