[Dovecot] Maildir folder separator

[Matt]

Just because you have 1 or 2 people asking to use a stupid PERIOD in a mailbox
name does not merrit a demand or real reason to allow the period. 

Let em to use an underscore or dash ( _ - )  sheeesh! Is it worth the bother to
redefine your code for that?

hehe

--- Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 02:32 +0300, Mikko Kortelainen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > There's been some demand from users to make it possible to use the 
> > period character (.) in folder names, but that is impossible when the 
> > folder separator is already period.
> > 
> > Is there any possibility of replacing that which another separator, say 
> > a / ?
> 
> Currently Dovecot supports only Maildir++ directory layout, which
> specifies that '.' character is used as the separator in the filesystem.
> You can change that separator from the sources, but then you'll have to
> rename all the existing maildirs.
> 
> src/lib-storage/index/maildir/maildir-storage.h MAILDIR_FS_SEP and
> MAILDIR_FS_SEP_S
> 
>