[Dovecot] Re: Asterisks (*) in Folder Names disallowed?
Daniel W
d at nielwatts.com
Mon Jun 26 20:15:27 EEST 2006
Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks for the really fast reply!
However:
host]# dovecot --version
1.0.beta9
Is'nt that the latest version?
Or do i need to just update that c file?
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