Re: dot in folder name in Courier or Dovecot [was: Looking for a decent IMAP server with hierarchical folders]

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Hi Ron,

brilliant observation. :-) I can't wait to upgrade from this ancient 
Mozilla, once I get this imap stuff to work...

No, I can't change the dots to underscores, sorry. Cyrus appers to be 
really smart about dots and change them secretly to charets, or 
something. Is it possible to have any other imap server do this the same 
way, i.e. transparently?

Would using mbox make it any better? Actually, I like the idea of 
maildir of having each message in a single file, even though I don't 
understand why maildir uses a dot for folder hierarchy instead of using 
a directory hierarchy provided by the file system...

Cheers,
Gordon


Ron Johnson wrote:

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> On 05/27/08 12:38, Public Mailing Lists wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for a decent imap server that supports hierarchical folders.
> > My first try was Cyrus, but that one is too pedantic when accepting
> > legacy emails. Other suggestions were Courier and Dovecot with maildir
> > storage format.
> >
> > Now I have lots of folders with dots in their names. And both Courier
> > and Dovecot treat the dot as hierarchy separator. Frequently, domain
> > names (as in mail.google.com) are used as folder names in my system, and
> > these get messed up.
> >
> > Is there a way in either Courier or Dovecot to allow dots '.' in folder
> > names?
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> It's not Courier and Dovecot, that are the problem, but that
> *Maildir* uses dots as hierarchy separator,  Could you change the
> dots to underscores?
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> BTW, you seem to be using a 2 year old version of Mozilla.  Time to
> upgrade!!!!
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> > Cyrus has "Unix Hierarchy Convention", that appears to work well.
> > With Dovecot, I tried to set 'separator' to '/' in the 'namespace'
> > construct, but it did not help.
> > How can I get this Unix Hierarchy Convention in Courier or Dovecot?
> >