On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Chris Wakelin wrote:
I've just noticed that Dovecot 1.0-stable and 1.0-test78 don't include mbox folders with names beginning with "." in the IMAP LIST output.
You know, I was going to suggest the same thing this weekend. It is a problem with Pine remote address books, if the remote addrbook uses a dotfile folder. The addressbook folder doesn't show up in LIST, so Pine tries to create it, and upon create, it gets a "Folder exists" error because it does already exist. This change should go into Dovecot to improve Pine compatibility if nothing else.
I'm actually moving to maildir soon, but I think this option might be useful there too. Yes, I know that a directory named '.foo..bar' or '..foo.bar' looks odd, but it should IMHO be possible. The code to do so would be a little more complex, of course, because the first dot is a folder separator while the next dot(s) would be part of the folder name.
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