[Dovecot] . (dot) in maildir folder names

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 24.05.2013 03:41, schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer:
> Hi.
> 
> Uhm... yeah as the topic implies I want to have . (dots) in my folder
> names...
> Unfortunately dovecot's maildirmake hasn't a -f switch as the one from
> courier/maildrop, but that one in turn is buggy[0] and doesn't encode
> any characters at all.
> 
> In principle, maildir++ should allow[1] having (encoded) dots in folder
> names,... but I don't quite understand how the encoding actually works,
> cause UTF-7 seems to be already the encoded (without padding and
> such)... but . is . in UTF-7 as well.
> 
> Does dovecot support this?
> At least my mail clients (well I only tried Evolution so far which sucks
> in so many areas)... couldn't create it... but I guess it's rather a
> stupid client issue.
> Anyone knows how it would be encoded?
> 
> 
> Interestingly, and this might be actually an inssue in doveocot when I
> create maildirs with non-ASCII chars without encoding these, e.g.
> maildir/.München/ (instead of the correctly encoded (.M&APw-nchen)
> Dovecot seems to "export" these to the clients,... at least Evolution
> shows it in the list of subscribable folders (even correctly as
> "München")... but it doesn't allow me to actually subscribe to it.
> 
> 
> Cheers & thx,
> Chris.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709555
> [1] http://www.courier-mta.org/maildir.html#id351803
> 

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http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Listescape


Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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