[Dovecot] . (dot) in maildir folder names

[Darren Pilgrim]

On 2013-05-24 05:29, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 19:58 -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>> Does adding LAYOUT=fs to mail_location, which makes Dovecot use a dir
>> hierarchy instead of dot-prefixing, make this possible?
 >
> I would expect that one then runs into the same troubles when using "/"
> in a foldername...

I often wondered by '.' was chosen.  A comma works just as well and, 
unlike '.', ',' isn't valid in a domain name or unquoted local part.

Using the FS does solve the only major issue I run into doing automated 
mailing list sorting based on the List-ID header.