[Dovecot] maildir and the separator for subfolder

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Feb 15 12:33:41 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 09:23 +0100, David Bonnafous wrote:
> 
> I use dovecot 1.0rc15 with one maildir namespace.
> 
> I'd like to be able to use '.' in folders and subfolders name.

The only way to do that is to change the sources:

src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.h

#define MAILDIR_FS_SEP '.'
#define MAILDIR_FS_SEP_S "."

Change both of these to whatever you want the separator to be. I
wouldn't recommend ':' though, it could cause problems.
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