[Dovecot] Asterisks (*) in Folder Names disallowed?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 17:22 +0100, Daniel W wrote:
> As far as I can see the RFC for IMAP should allow the * character in the 
> folder name. This is certainly allowed in UW IMAP.
> 
> Dovecot seems to object however with:
> 
> ERROR : Could not complete request.
> Query: COPY 9975:9975 "mail/*myfolder"
> Reason Given: Invalid mailbox name.
> 
> 
> Could this restriction be lifted?

It already is, I guess you're using an old version:

2006-02-15 19:37  Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>

	* src/lib-storage/index/: dbox/dbox-storage.c,
	  maildir/maildir-storage.c, mbox/mbox-storage.c: Allow creating
	  mailbox names with '*' and '%' characters. They don't break
	  anything anyway.

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