[Dovecot] Allowing tilde at start of mailbox names

[Timo Sirainen]

On 25.7.2007, at 19.13, pod wrote:

>     TS> It's mostly there just to make sure that ~/ or ~user/ can't be
>     TS> used to open mailboxes where you weren't supposed to have  
> access
>     TS> to. I didn't think anyone would really want to have mailboxes
>     TS> beginning with ~. Do you really want them? (I don't think they
>     TS> were possible with UW-IMAP either?)
>
> Unfortunately yes it would be useful in my case to have them  
> because of
> historical accident.

How about if listescape plugin escaped it? That would make it  
possible to use them but still safe against accidental problems.

For others too, I implemented a plugin for escaping mailbox names  
with Maildir so that it's possible to use '.' in mailbox names:  
http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/listescape-plugin.c

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