[Dovecot] How to remove leading dots from folder names with Layout=FS

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Nov 23 20:11:02 EET 2009


On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:49 -0500, Tony Rutherford wrote:
> We are looking to move to Dovecot from a customized Courier
> implementation.  Our current format is maildir-like. It's basically a
> filesystem layout...hierarchies are identified by real
> directories/subdirectories.  Our folder names do have a leading dot
> and for reasons related to other systems, we do not want to change our
> format at all.The Layout=FS is very close to working for us.  The
> problem we have is the folder names are coming back with the leading
> dot to the clients.  Is there a way through configuration to have the
> leading dot removed?

No. You're doing something way too weird.

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