[Dovecot] Effect of separators

[Lukas Haase]

Am 08.02.2011 18:14, schrieb Willie Gillespie:
> On 02/08/2011 08:54 AM, Lukas Haase wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> A dumb question: What exactly is the effect of the separator?
>>
>> Is it also used to separate in the underlying file system? I.e. when I
>> have the separator '/', the IMAP folder Sent/Jan is physically stored as
>
> As far as I understand, the separator is used in the context of IMAP
> only, and not the file system.

Dear Willie,

So if I understand correctly, if I set '/' as separator, the Maildir 
layout will still be

.Folder1.subfolder

?

Thank you for this hint, I think this is clear now.

>[...]
> Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe it has an
> effect on the backend (besides disallowing the use of that character in
> a folder name).

Thank you for your reply!

Regards,
Luke