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

[Wilko Bulte]

Quoting Wilko Bulte, who wrote on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 05:53:10PM +0100 ..
> 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!

While talking to the same dovecot 1.2.8 server:

Mutt 1.5.18 (2008-05-17) works OK with first.initial.last mboxes

and 

Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) does NOT work with first.initial.last mboxes

So it looks like I was totally offtrack in assuming dovecot was at fault.
My apologies.

I'll see if I can find out more 

Wilko