[dovecot] Re: Changing hierarchy separator to '/'

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 01:03, Charlie Brady wrote:
> >From TODO:
> 
> ...
>     - maildir: change it to use '/' as hierarchy separator to allow '.'
>       characters (for usernames in shared folders)
> ...
> 
> Now changing the separator in the maildir-storage.c is trivial (even 
> though it "can't" be changed :-), but fixing the resultant breakage in 
> maildir-list.c needs a little more understanding. Timo, could you give me 
> some pointers? I can see that I need to work out what imap_match_init() 
> does.

Did you want to change the '.' separator in filenames too? If not, just
change all '/' chars in mask to '.' in maildir_list_mailbox_init(). 

imap_match_init() doesn't have to be touched, it gets the separator as
parameter. It just initializes the matching so you can later test with
imap_match() if the mask matches to mailbox name.