On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 17:26 +0200, Mij wrote:
interface supported by dovecot, dovecot snips the mailbox directory
returned by the authentication module at colon characters ':'. .. Of course, it's very desirable to support "." users too. I see that it
would require several changes in the code, but I'd like to hear your opinion on this. What
about
- using a different separator than ":", less common and safer. Could
'\0' be one? If not, what about '*'?
The problem is that mail_location setting uses ":" as the "sub-setting" separator. If I changed it, I'd break a huge number of Dovecot installations. The reason why I chose ":" in the first place was because I didn't think anyone would really use it in directory names, because that would also break e.g. $PATH.
- as a quicker & dirtier solution, what about allowing escaping? One
can modify the auth module to replace ":" with "\:", if dovecot is instructed to
avoid tokenizing when a "\" precedes a ":".
I suppose :: could be used to escape a single : character. I might break a few installations by doing that change, but I could live with that. Added to v1.2: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/675f0df22f24