On 2013-05-23 10:12 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo@scientia.net wrote:
Maybe the whole thing IS actually also a dovecot issue... When trying to create a folder with a dot with thunderbird (which doesn't simply forbid this)... it actually transmits the folder name to dovecote (e.g. "kernel.org")... but dovecot then literally takes this over and creates .kernel.org, i.e. no encoding and thus org becomes a subfolder.
And for some reason, the Parent folder is created as a folder that cannot contain files, only folders.
I have to fix these occasionally for users who do this.
This is why I'll be implementing a different character for the separator on my new box - something much less likely to be used in a foldername - I'm currently thinking the caret (^) symbol may be best...
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Best regards,
Charles