I think we need a public compliance test, similar to html and ssl, then people would start questioning the quality of their own client, and migrate to better ones. When Micro$oft will eventually feel the pinch, then they will start fixing their $hit. People have the power! (I like that song.)
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 09:59, Wojciech Puchar <woj...@puchar.net> wrote: >> >> As I have no control over their minds, hands, and client software, I wish I >> could enforce the policy from the server, returning an >> error message to the client. >> >> On its turn, this requires the client to listen to such server messages, >> operated by a smarter user. > > the problem with pseudomail pseudoprogram outlook is that it simply > ignores error and shows folder created, then even allow to store messages > in it (store it locally in temporary file). > > When file is deleted messages are lost. > >> >> At the end of the day, it feels like we are re-discovering the wheel, as >> such problems should have been addressed and solved long >> ago by an RFC. >> >> Listescape is a welcome patch. Let see if it works. I just have to select a >> character that no user could type and still practical >> for the filesystem to use... >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:07, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: >> On 28 Sep 2018, at 16.44, Wojciech Puchar <woj...@puchar.net> wrote: >> >> user attempts to create folders with / dovecot naturally cannot create it so >> it returns error but outlook of >> course "create" it and keep data in local store only. data is lost when you >> remove local store .pst file. >> >> The question is - can dovecot be configured so it will automatically replace >> slash in name with something >> else? >> >> >> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Listescape maybe? >> >> >>
