Filip Hajný wrote:
- 2020 v 11:51, Victor Sudakov vas@sibptus.ru:
I had to do it with 10-20 live users and it went fine, nobody noticed anything (I made the change in the night hours just to be sure though). I had to go down and fix some erratic folder names that resulted from the botched separator handling on some macOS Mail accounts.
Did it change anything on Dovecot disk/storage or is the IMAP separator just "virtual" - ephemeral ?
Changing the separator won't fix anything that already exists. You should see nonsense folders in the form of '.folder\2esubfolder‘ there that cannot be worked with in any way. I manually moved the contents of these to their properly named ('.folder.subfolder‘) variants - on disk.
I was asking because the section "Hierarchy separators" in https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/namespace/ somewhat implies that
However, changing the separator doesn’t change the on-disk “layout separator”.
That's why I thought that the separator is in fact virtual.
At present, if my folder layout in the mail client is
Inbox | +---Friends | +----Paul | +----Jessica
the folder "Jessica" on-disk is something like ~/Maildir/.Friends.Jessica/{cur,new,tmp}/
Do you mean to say that if I change the IMAP separator to "/", Dovecot will not translate "/" into "." and the folder "Jessica" will become inaccessible?
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