-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. > Would using mbox make it any better? Depends on your definition of "better". uw-imapd and (maybe) Dovecot support mbox-backed-IMAP, so maybe that's the route you should take. > 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... The courier-imap list would probably have that kind of historical knowledge. > Cheers, > Gordon > > > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 05/27/08 12:38, Public Mailing Lists wrote: >> >> >>> 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? >>> >> >> 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? >> >> BTW, you seem to be using a 2 year old version of Mozilla. Time to >> upgrade!!!! >> >> >> >>> 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? >>> > > - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA ESPN makes baseball players better. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIPHZpS9HxQb37XmcRAgunAJ9yjIsxzuo0V8ycGz6dG24BebA14gCeP0qh EtuaDtBsEER+lOTVrWweYTk= =fr+m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
