[Dovecot] .'s in folder names

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de
Thu Oct 27 16:59:34 EEST 2005


On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> Change MAILDIR_FS_SEP and MAILDIR_FS_SEP_S in
> src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.h to something else than
> "." (eg. "^" might be rarely enough used).
>
> After that it's no longer a "standard" Maildir++ though and you'll have
> to keep patching Dovecot for each new version. I may make this
> configurable from config file some day though.

What's the impact of using MAILDIR_FS_SEP = '/' ?
Would it work or clash, e.g. when deleting a folder or renaming it?

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser


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