[Dovecot] dot named folders

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 08.03.2012 17:27, schrieb Micah Anderson:
> Willie Gillespie <wgillespie+dovecot at es2eng.com> writes:
> 
>> On 03/07/2012 12:43 PM, Micah Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>> When a user makes a folder called 'x.y' it actually creates a folder
>>> called 'x' with a folder called 'y' inside, rather than a folder called
>>> 'x.y'. I'm guessing this has to do with an internal folder separator
>>> namespace configuration, but I'm a bit confused by how this works.
>>
>> Correct.
>> Similar to how in Linux, I could create a folder
>> mkdir test1/test2
>> It will create test2 inside of test1.
>>
>> The difference being that IMAP doesn't necessarily need the parent mailbox to
>> exist, where Linux would throw an error if test1/ didn't exist first.
>>
>> So basically, as far as I know, you can't have a folder with a "." in the name
>> with the namespaces you have set up.
> 
> That makes sense, however I'm not sure that I need these namespaces any
> longer if I no longer am using the maildir format (mdbox). 
> 
> In either case, it seems like the internal folder separator should not
> be exposed to the user like this. What is happening now is the user gets
> something other than they expect (a folder within a folder, instead of a
> folder with a dot in the name) because of some unknown internal
> configuration. 
> 
> If moving to mdbox is not enough to remove these namespace
> configurations that cause this, then it would be good if the user was
> unable to create such a folder, because it was prohibited, rather than
> creating something other than they expect.
> 
> micah
> 

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