[Dovecot] Maildir hierarchy sep bug ?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Feb 17, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Thomas Hummel wrote:

> What confused me is that,
>
>  . with global setup (no namespace at all), both '/' and '.' works  
> (from the
>    client of the client), i.e. I can, in TB create
>
>    a.b
>
>  or
>
>    a/b
>
> and it will shows up as subfolder b of folder a (and on the  
> server .a.b/ Maildir).
>
> So the separator seems to be both '.' and '/'. I wonder if it is  
> normal.

That's a Thunderbird feature then. Trying to use '/' directly gives  
just:

x create foo/bar
x NO Invalid mailbox name: foo/bar