[Dovecot] . (dot) in maildir folder names

[Charles Marcus]

On 2013-05-23 10:12 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo at scientia.net> 
wrote:
> Maybe the whole thing IS actually also a dovecot issue...
> When trying to create a folder with a dot with thunderbird (which
> doesn't simply forbid this)... it actually transmits the folder name to
> dovecote (e.g. "kernel.org")... but dovecot then literally takes this
> over and creates .kernel.org, i.e. no encoding and thus org becomes a
> subfolder.

And for some reason, the Parent folder is created as a folder that 
cannot contain files, only folders.

I have to fix these occasionally for users who do this.

This is why I'll be implementing a different character for the separator 
on my new box - something much less likely to be used in a foldername - 
I'm currently thinking the caret (^) symbol may be best...

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Best regards,

Charles