[Dovecot] .'s in folder names

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 15:59 +0200, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> 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?

Most likely it wouldn't work at all. It would be completely incompatible
with the code's logic.
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