[dovecot] Re: Why can't hierarchy sep be changed?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 23:43, Charlie Brady wrote:
> > Actually I'm going to change it to '/' to allow folders such as
> > shared/timo.sirainen/mailbox. The directory names themselves will still
> > contain '.' separator to stay compatible with Courier's Maildir++
> > format. So even though new IMAP separator will be '/', '.' still can't
> > be used in mailbox names.
> 
> I don't care about Courier compatibility (speaking just for myself - no 
> flames please), and I do want '.' in mailbox names. Will that be easy for 
> me?

I could make it easy when I separate the IMAP/directory separators.
Currently you'd have to change the '.' from several places, it's
included inside some strings too. Everything should be in maildir-list.c
and maildir-storage.c anyway.

> And just to repeat my question - is the only reason that '.' is unwelcome 
> Courier compatibility?

Yes.