[Dovecot] Re: Asterisks (*) in Folder Names disallowed?

Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 17:22 +0100, Daniel W wrote:

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As far as I can see the RFC for IMAP should allow the * character in the folder name. This is certainly allowed in UW IMAP.

Dovecot seems to object however with:

ERROR : Could not complete request. Query: COPY 9975:9975 "mail/*myfolder" Reason Given: Invalid mailbox name.

Could this restriction be lifted?

It already is, I guess you're using an old version:

2006-02-15 19:37 Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi

• src/lib-storage/index/: dbox/dbox-storage.c, maildir/maildir-storage.c, mbox/mbox-storage.c: Allow creating mailbox names with '*' and '%' characters. They don't break anything anyway.

Thanks for the really fast reply!

However: host]# dovecot --version 1.0.beta9

Is'nt that the latest version? Or do i need to just update that c file?