IMAP Folder Mail Separator

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Wed Jul 8 05:33:33 UTC 2015


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On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Alex wrote:

> I have a fedora21 install with dovecot-2.2.18, and when creating a new
> subfolder with thunderbird, the actual folder name is
> "Folder1^Folder2" with a carat as a separator, instead of creating
> Folder2 in the Folder1 directory.
>
> Is this a thunderbird problem? I don't recall having this problem
> prior to upgrading to fedora21, so thought maybe it's a dovecot
> problem.
>
> Maybe the separator character is customizable?

please post your old and the current configuration:

doveconf -n

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir
and
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Listescape

seems to apply in your situation.

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Steffen Kaiser
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