[Dovecot] . (dot) in maildir folder names

[Timo Sirainen]

Took a while, but finally fixed :) http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/fce84463f508

On 25.5.2013, at 5.21, Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo at scientia.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 02:43 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
>> And I may have found one further issue:
>> 
>> I set:
>> separator = '\\'
>> maildir with _not_ using LAYOUT=fs
>> the list encode plugin is on
>> listescape_char is left to default
>> 
>> 
>> When I now create a folder "foo.bar" it seemingly works (the client
>> shows it as "a.a"), but what comes out is:
>> .a.2ea
>> how can this work?
> 
> 
> Quite sure this must be a bug... I played a bit more...
> I can create a folder which is shown as "a.2ea" and in the filesystem
> this becomes ".a.2e2ea".
> 
> When I make a folder "a" and then try to make a subfolder "2ea" of it...
> it doesn't work (the client seems to already fail).
> 
> When I make subfolders (below) like "3e" or "65"... they first show up
> as these.... but after several times refreshing... they become folder
> "a>" and "ae".
> 
> 
> Using another quote character like:
> listescape_char = ^
> and things seem to work again as expected, i.e. a folder "e.e" becomes
> ".e^2ee"
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris.