[Dovecot] dovecot and firstname.initial.lastname mbox format archive

[Wilko Bulte]

Quoting Timo Sirainen, who wrote on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 05:26:54PM +0200 ..
> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 19:13 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > > - On my new system I have dovecot v 1.2.8 which refuses to handle these
> > > >  dot-seperated files.  I get the somewhat familiar 
> > > >   "Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes".
> > > 
> > I have attached the dovecot -n from my dovecot 1.2.8 which does not want to
> > accept firstname.initial.lastname.  This is the dovecot128.conf file.
> 
> I don't see anything obviously wrong. Try talking IMAP protocol
> directly, maybe your client is doing something wrong.
> 
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation
> 
> After login try something like:
> 
> a create foo.bar.baz
> b select foo.bar.baz
> 
> If that succeeds, it's probably client issue. Recreating the account

Looks like this is working just fine:

a login wb foo
a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT
SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE
CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC
ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH] Logged in
a create foo.bar.baz
a OK Create completed.
b select foo.bar.baz
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags
permitted.
* 0 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1266511425] UIDs valid
* OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID
* OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1] Highest
b OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.

as it resulted in the creation of foo.bar.baz like so:

-rw-------  1 wb  wb          0 Feb 18 17:43 foo.bar.baz

Hmmmmm... fascinating..

I'll investigate further, thanks for your kind help sofar!

	Wilko