[Dovecot] Seperator

[Willie Gillespie]

On 04/12/2011 03:35 PM, Carsten Laun-De Lellis wrote:
> Hi all
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> I hope to get some help on the separator. I am sure that I hava a wrong
> understanding what the separator is.
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> I thaught the separator is the delimiter within the imap folder structure.
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> For example:
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> Imap folder structure: folder Flights, subfolder Lufthansa
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> If the delimiter is “.” the ls –a command should result:
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> .Flights                 .Flights.Lufthansa
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> If delimiter is  “/”
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> Flights                  Flights/Lufthansa
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> I tried several delimiters but only the “.” Works.


As far as I know, the folder structure (ls -a) will always* show
.Flights
.Flights.Lufthansa

It is in the IMAP commands that they use the delimiter ("/" in this case):
1 NAMESPACE
* NAMESPACE (("" "/")) NIL NIL
1 OK Namespace completed.

2 SUBSCRIBE Flights/Lufthansa
2 OK Subscribe completed.

Or, if you use "." as the delimiter:
1 NAMESPACE
* NAMESPACE (("" ".")) NIL NIL
1 OK Namespace completed.

2 SUBSCRIBE Flights.Lufthansa
2 OK Subscribe completed.



* there are some Dovecot configurations where you can change that by 
using layout=fs