Re: [Dovecot] Allowing tilde at start of mailbox names

On 25.7.2007, at 19.13, pod wrote:

TS> It's mostly there just to make sure that ~/ or ~user/ can't be
TS> used to open mailboxes where you weren't supposed to have  

access TS> to. I didn't think anyone would really want to have mailboxes TS> beginning with ~. Do you really want them? (I don't think they TS> were possible with UW-IMAP either?)

Unfortunately yes it would be useful in my case to have them
because of historical accident.

How about if listescape plugin escaped it? That would make it
possible to use them but still safe against accidental problems.

For others too, I implemented a plugin for escaping mailbox names
with Maildir so that it's possible to use '.' in mailbox names:
http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/listescape-plugin.c