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

[Daniel W]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Daniel W wrote:
> 
>>>> 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?
> 
> Oh, in that case looks like I removed the other checks a bit later in here:
> 
> 2006-06-17 14:02  Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> 
>     * src/imap/commands-util.c: Fixes to checking if mailbox name is
>       valid. In case mailbox name is invalid, put it through
>       str_sanitize() before giving it in an error message.
> 
> You could get dovecot-latest from http://dovecot.org/nightly/ or wait a 
> while for 1.0rc1, which I'll release soon.. I guess I should do that 
> already, but I'm still feeling a bit unsure if there are any stupid bugs 
> left :)

Well, then I think you could release 1.0rc0.5 ;o)

Thanks for your responses.
Daniel