[Dovecot] case (non-)sensitivity for folder names

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Jan 5 20:20:16 EET 2011


On 5.1.2011, at 19.33, Phil Howard wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:05, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 10:09 -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
>>> Is IMAP supposed to be case sensitive or case in-sensitive?
>> 
>> Case sensitive, except for INBOX. (Or if the server is using
>> case-insensitive filesystem then they're case-insensitive.)
> 
> So what will Dovecot do when both directories exist:  .INBOX.Spam and
> .INBOX.spam

Same as if they were called .INBOX.Spam and .INBOX.HelloWorld. They are two completely different mailboxes.



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