[Dovecot] Dsync fails on second sync for folders with dot in the name

[Jan-Frode Myklebust]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:34:59PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 13:12 +0100, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> > 	dsync-remote(janfrode at tanso.net): Error: Can't delete mailbox directory INBOX.a: Mailbox has children, delete them first
> 
> Oh, this happens only with dsync backup, and only with Maildir++ -> FS
> layout change. You can simply ignore this error, or patch with
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/69c6d7436f7f that hides it.

Oh, it was so quick to fail that I didn't realize it had successfully
updated the remote mailboxes :-) Thanks!

But isn't it a bug that users are allowed to create folders named .a.b,
or that dovecot creates this as a folder named .a.b instead of .a/.b
when the separator is "." ?


  -jf