[Dovecot] dovecot and firstname.initial.lastname mbox format archive

hi

Today I have been in a puzzling fight with 2 dovecot versions that I would like to ask some comments on.

The situation is this:

• I have a considerable mail archive in mbox format (yes, I know, but that is what I have..).
• My mail reader is mutt 1.5.20 by the way.
• Some of these mbox files have names like firstname.initial.lastname Note the . seperating the parts of the email-ers name.
• On my old system I have dovecot v 1.1.7 which has always worked flawless
• On my new system I have dovecot v 1.2.8 which refuses to handle these dot-seperated files. I get the somewhat familiar "Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes". On a not-previously-existing mbox dovecot 1.2.8 produces the directory hierarchy thing: firstname -> initial -> lastname
• I am using the same dovecot.conf on v.1.1.7 and v.1.2.8

Can anyone tell me if v1.2.8 no longer is able to do what v1.1.7 did? And what I dearly would like to get working :-( And if it can, what should I put in dovecot.conf to make that happen?

thanks, Wilko

-- wilko@FreeBSD.org