[Dovecot] . (dot) in maildir folder names

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hi.

Uhm... yeah as the topic implies I want to have . (dots) in my folder
names...
Unfortunately dovecot's maildirmake hasn't a -f switch as the one from
courier/maildrop, but that one in turn is buggy[0] and doesn't encode
any characters at all.

In principle, maildir++ should allow[1] having (encoded) dots in folder
names,... but I don't quite understand how the encoding actually works,
cause UTF-7 seems to be already the encoded (without padding and
such)... but . is . in UTF-7 as well.

Does dovecot support this?
At least my mail clients (well I only tried Evolution so far which sucks
in so many areas)... couldn't create it... but I guess it's rather a
stupid client issue.
Anyone knows how it would be encoded?


Interestingly, and this might be actually an inssue in doveocot when I
create maildirs with non-ASCII chars without encoding these, e.g.
maildir/.München/ (instead of the correctly encoded (.M&APw-nchen)
Dovecot seems to "export" these to the clients,... at least Evolution
shows it in the list of subscribable folders (even correctly as
"München")... but it doesn't allow me to actually subscribe to it.


Cheers & thx,
Chris.




[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709555
[1] http://www.courier-mta.org/maildir.html#id351803
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