[Dovecot] Sieve fileinto a subfolder fails -- more info, possible workaround

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:05 -0700, Rich McAllister wrote:
> After looking at the way Maildir represents subfolders, I changed
> the sieve line from
> 
>         fileinto "Lists/NCCC";
> 
> to
> 
> 	fileinto "Lists.NCCC";
> 
> and now it files into the NCCC subfolder of Lists as I wanted.  I'm
> not sure whether this is the expected behavior or just an accident
> that plugging that string into the file name happens to result in the right
> name.
> 
> I haven't tried, but if it's just passing the fileinto argument along
> with minimal inspection, I'm afraid the answer might be use
> "Lists/NCCC" if mail is in mbox format but "Lists.NCCC" if mail is in
> Maildirs, and it certainly seems that users editing their sieve
> scripts shouldn't have to know that.

Change your namespace configuration to use '/' separator and it's always
'/'. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces

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