14. 10. 2020 v 13:39, Sami Ketola <s...@ketola.io>: > >> On 14. Oct 2020, at 14.20, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: >> >> On 14 Oct 2020, at 04:24, Sami Ketola <s...@ketola.io> wrote: >>> On 14. Oct 2020, at 12.51, Victor Sudakov <v...@sibptus.ru> wrote: >>>> Those Mac clients who do not use nested folders do not seem to be >>>> affected. That is, I've already suggested to the Mac Mail user that he >>>> start Thunderbird, move all his mailboxes into the IMAP root folder, and >>>> then go on using Mac Mail. I hope that's what he has done. >> >>> There is a bug in Mail.app that it always assumes / as hierarchy separator >>> and >>> completely ignores server provided separator. >> >> Cite? Because no, that is not my experience at all. >> >> From my maildir on my FreeBSD server: >> >> # ls -lnd .root* >> drwx------ 5 89 89 512 Oct 14 05:16 .root >> drwx------ 5 89 89 512 Oct 14 02:02 .root.44 >> drwx------ 5 89 89 512 Oct 14 02:02 .root.Cron >> drwx------ 5 89 89 512 Oct 14 05:16 .root.Hastur >> … etc >> >> Works fine in Mail.app on Mac OS and has for at least 16 years. > > I just tested it with my Dovecot 2.2.36 setup. I did set up an account with > '.' as separator and created some folders. > First mail.app succeeded in creating test root folder but when I tried to > create subfolder 'test2' under 'test' Mail.app issued > CREATE "test/test2" folder instead of "test.test2". And then failed to list > the created folder completely. > > Everything worked if I did set separator to '/'
In my case, having the hierarchy separator set to '/', subfolders created using the Mail client in macOS Catalina resulted in '.folder\2esubfolder‘ on disk (2e corresponds to '.‘). I had to change the hierarchy separator to a dot. So exactly the opposite! -F
