[Dovecot] dsync / separator / namespace config-problem

[Jan-Frode Myklebust]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 03:10:20PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> With mdbox the internal separator is '/', but it's not valid to have "INBOX." prefix then (it should be "INBOX/").

But how should this be handled in the migration phase from maildir to
mdbox then? Can we have different namespaces for users with maildirs vs.
mdboxes? (..or am i misunderstanding something?)

> 
> > I can fix this by adding "separator = ." to the namespace and dsync is
> > happy, but is changing this now safe, or will this affect existing clients?
> 
> Since you were using Maildir, which uses '.' as the default separator, setting this explicitly won't break anything.

Great, I'll fix our config then. Thanks!



  -jf