8 Feb
2011
8 Feb
'11
7:14 p.m.
On 02/08/2011 08:54 AM, Lukas Haase wrote:
Dear list,
A dumb question: What exactly is the effect of the separator?
Is it also used to separate in the underlying file system? I.e. when I have the separator '/', the IMAP folder Sent/Jan is physically stored as
As far as I understand, the separator is used in the context of IMAP only, and not the file system.
So a client using IMAP will open Folder1/subfolder or Folder1.subfolder depending on the separator.
Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe it has an effect on the backend (besides disallowing the use of that character in a folder name).