"GE" == Grant Edwards grante@visi.com writes:
GE> When using maildir storage, is there any way to use something
GE> besides "." as the folder separator?Please note that the following relates to dovecot 1.0. I've not looked to see if 1.1 behaves differently.
Yes you can use a namespace
namespace private {
# empty prefix indicates the default namespace
prefix =
inbox = yes
separator = /
}However using just this dovecot will still not allow maildir mailbox names to contain a '.'.
GE> I like to use folder names that match people's e-mail addresses
GE> (that's a default behavior in mutt), and "." is a pretty popular
GE> character in e-mail addresses. Ideally, I'd like to use "/".The (unofficial) listescape plugin
http://www.dovecot.org/patches/1.0/listescape-plugin.c
will allow maildir folder names to contain '.' (and '~' at the start incidentally). Note however that this is only a good solution if you are offering exclusively IMAP/POP3 access to the mailstore. If you are also exposing mailboxes directly by a filesystem interface then standard Maildir++ utilities are likely to get confused because a folder known to the client as "a.b" will appear in the filesystem with a name of 'a\2eb'.
We have used this feature to migrate from a UW imapd based service to a dovecot based service with (what I believe to be) no user visible change. [1]
GE> Is "." allowed in mailbox names when using mbox storage?Yes, I believe so.
Footnotes:
[1] Except that folders can now contain sub folders and messages.