Robert Schetterer <rob...@schetterer.org> writes: > Am 08.03.2012 17:27, schrieb Micah Anderson: >> Willie Gillespie <wgillespie+dove...@es2eng.com> writes: >> >>> On 03/07/2012 12:43 PM, Micah Anderson wrote: >>>> >>>> When a user makes a folder called 'x.y' it actually creates a folder >>>> called 'x' with a folder called 'y' inside, rather than a folder called >>>> 'x.y'. I'm guessing this has to do with an internal folder separator >>>> namespace configuration, but I'm a bit confused by how this works. >>> >>> Correct. >>> Similar to how in Linux, I could create a folder >>> mkdir test1/test2 >>> It will create test2 inside of test1. >>> >>> The difference being that IMAP doesn't necessarily need the parent mailbox >>> to >>> exist, where Linux would throw an error if test1/ didn't exist first. >>> >>> So basically, as far as I know, you can't have a folder with a "." in the >>> name >>> with the namespaces you have set up. >> >> That makes sense, however I'm not sure that I need these namespaces any >> longer if I no longer am using the maildir format (mdbox). >> >> In either case, it seems like the internal folder separator should not >> be exposed to the user like this. What is happening now is the user gets >> something other than they expect (a folder within a folder, instead of a >> folder with a dot in the name) because of some unknown internal >> configuration. >> >> If moving to mdbox is not enough to remove these namespace >> configurations that cause this, then it would be good if the user was >> unable to create such a folder, because it was prohibited, rather than >> creating something other than they expect. >> >> micah >> > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Listescape > may help
Interesting, thanks for the pointer, although I think I prefer if users are just prohibited from making a 'folder.withadot' and told that it is prohibited right away, rather than giving them a way to do it. micah --
