[Dovecot] .'s in folder names

[Marcus Rueckert]

On 2005-10-21 08:12:22 +1300, Craig Whitmore wrote:
> We are trying to move over from 1 IMAP server to another, but the
> problem is dovecot does not allow .'s in folder names (and we have
> quite a number of people who do have .'s in their folder names (ie
> "www.domain stuff")
> 
> Is there anyway of allowing dovecot to allow .'s in folder names?

not if you use maildir
with maildir+ the hierarchie delimiter is the "." but you are free to
use mbox if you rely on ".".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir

darix