Re: dot in folder name in Courier or Dovecot [was: Looking for a decent IMAP server with hierarchical folders]
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On 05/27/08 16:00, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/27/08 15:27, Public Mailing Lists wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Escaping the . might work. I tried it, from within Icedove, though,
> and it didn't work. Maybe from the command line.
Ok, it *is* possible to create Maildir folders with dots in them.
$ maildirmake -f test\.ing Maildir
$#
$ dir Maildir/.test.ing/
total 32
drwx------ 6 me me 4096 2008-05-27 20:00 ./
drwx-w---- 88 me me 4096 2008-05-27 19:59 ../
- -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 43 2008-05-27 20:00 courierimapacl
drwx------ 2 me me 4096 2008-05-27 20:01 courierimapkeywords/
- -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 84 2008-05-27 20:01 courierimapuiddb
drwx------ 2 me me 4096 2008-05-27 20:01 cur/
- -rw------- 1 me me 0 2008-05-27 19:59 maildirfolder
drwx------ 2 me me 4096 2008-05-27 19:59 new/
drwx------ 2 me me 4096 2008-05-27 20:01 tmp/
The Python IMAP library sees that the test.ing folder has no
children, but Icedove/Tbird doesn't handle it correctly. Maybe
Sylpheed or GNOME will?
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
ESPN makes baseball players better.
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