[Dovecot] Effect of separators
Willie Gillespie
wgillespie+dovecot at es2eng.com
Tue Feb 8 19:14:54 EET 2011
On 02/08/2011 08:54 AM, Lukas Haase wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> A dumb question: What exactly is the effect of the separator?
>
> Is it also used to separate in the underlying file system? I.e. when I
> have the separator '/', the IMAP folder Sent/Jan is physically stored as
As far as I understand, the separator is used in the context of IMAP
only, and not the file system.
So a client using IMAP will open Folder1/subfolder or Folder1.subfolder
depending on the separator.
Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe it has an
effect on the backend (besides disallowing the use of that character in
a folder name).
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