The .folder.subfolder is *disk* representation of folders. This has no bearing
what the client are using.
The other thing is *virtual* (ie. what the client sees) which is governed by
namespace_separator setting.
so basically
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
separator = .
}
Aki
> On 20/11/2025 21:50 EET Lou Duchez via dovecot <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> For whatever it's worth, under 2.4.1, my subfolders are the same as
> always. Old subfolders still work. I can make new subfolders and they
> work too. When I look at my file system, the folders are like ".folder"
> and ".folder.subfolder", the same as always, even new subfolders.
>
> So I think that is good news; it means it can be fixed, whatever is
> wrong. Perhaps the problem is kmail, and kmail doesn't understand that a
> folder of ".folder.subfolder" should be interpreted as, "subfolder" is
> under "folder"?
>
>
> On 11/20/2025 2:32 PM, Marek Greško via dovecot wrote:
> > Hello,
> > after upgrade of the dovecot to 2.4.1 version my folders in folders
> > stopped working.
> > For example I had folder work and subfolder done. When accessing folder
> > work everything is working, but after accessing inner folder done, I get
> > error in kmail:
> > A000210 NO Character not allowed in mailbox name: '.' ( 0.001 + 0.000
> > secs
> > ) . [ CANNOT ]
> > When I look into disk structure on disk, the folder name is .work.done.
> > It
> > seems new version of dovecot does not allow the . in the name. How
> > could I
> > fix this?
> > Thanks
> > Marek
> >
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