12 Mar
2008
12 Mar
'08
12:17 a.m.
"AM" == Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu> writes:
AM> I have been using it for a few weeks and it has been working well,
AM> but yesterday I noticed it also seems to be escaping the \
AM> (backslash) character in folder names.listescape has to escape '\' so that applications of decode-encode and encode-decode are idempotent. If it did not do this a client that asked, for example, to create a folder called a\2eb (i.e. issues CREATE "a\2eb") would be shown the folder as a.b by dovecot in a subsequent folder listing.
AM> This wouldn't be a problem except it breaks operation of folders
AM> that already had a \ in the name before the plugin was loaded.
AM> This isn't a huge problem for us but I want to figure out if I
AM> should special case migration of folder names containing a \ to be
AM> the new internal representation \5c or if the plugin should just
AM> deal with normal \'s in the foldernames properly.Yes, I think you need to rename folders that contained a '\' in the name before you started using listescape, but clearly you should not rename any folders that have subsequently been created by the listescape plugin that contain a '\'.