On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 05:57, Lars Hansson wrote:

dovecot seems to have an issue with :'s in pathnames: imap(test.user): Fatal: Failed to create storage with data: /home/ hosted/example.com/users/test:user

This causes a bit of a problem with vmailmgr since it, by default, replaces .'s in maildir path with :'s. I'm curious as to why :'s in paths are an issue? Do they have special meaning to dovecot?

Hmm.. They do. default_mail_env format is: "storage_format:data" and both mbox and maildir in "data" part treat it as "path:option:option2:..". So, Dovecot above thought "/home/hosted/example.com/users/test" was the storage format and "user" the data part for it. You could change default_mail_env = maildir:~/ but then Dovecot would think "user" as being unknown option..

I'm not sure what to do about this.. ':' was selected because it's PATH separator as well, so people rarely have directories containing ':' in it's name. Maybe it could be escaped as "\:"..