Re: dot in folder name in Courier or Dovecot

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Subject: Re: dot in folder name in Courier or Dovecot
From: Nicolas KOWALSKI <niko@petole.dyndns.org>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 08:34:46 +0200
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Public Mailing Lists <lists@lists.cichon.com> writes:

> 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?

With Dovecot, you can use a namespace to define '/' as the hierarchy
separator, even if Maildir is used as storage.

BTW, what are the problems with Cyrus ?

-- 
Nicolas

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