Quoting Timo Sirainen, who wrote on Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:23:09PM +0200 ..
On 10.2.2010, at 21.36, Wilko Bulte wrote:
Hello Timo,
- 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".
mbox hierarchy separator is typically '/'. The above error message sounds like you've changed the separator to be '.'. Is that intentional?
I have attached the dovecot -n from my dovecot 1.2.8 which does not want to accept firstname.initial.lastname. This is the dovecot128.conf file.
I have also attached the dovecot -n from my dovecot 1.1.7 (running on another system) which works OK with firstname.initial.lastname
Both versions work OK as long as there are no . in the name of the mbox file to be created/written. Only 1.1.7 works with . in the filename of the mbox file.
On a not-previously-existing mbox dovecot 1.2.8 produces the directory hierarchy thing: firstname -> initial -> lastname
You mean this is also how it was in 1.1.7?.. If so, it probably worked back then only because of lack of error detection.
No, on 1.1.7 I never used/saw firstname -> inital -> lastname inboxes. I only saw firstname.initial.lastname mbox files, no directory hierarchy was created.
Appreciate your insight! Thanks!
Wilko