[Dovecot] dot named folders

[Micah Anderson]

Robert Schetterer <robert at schetterer.org> writes:

> 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
>> 
>
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Listescape
> may help

Interesting, thanks for the pointer, although I think I prefer if users
are just prohibited from making a 'folder.withadot' and told that it is
prohibited right away, rather than giving them a way to do it.

micah

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