[Dovecot] Disallow certain characters in foldernames?

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 08.01.2014 18:52, schrieb Charles Marcus:
> Is there a way to do this in dovecot? Similar to how you can
> 
> When using Maildir and Thunderbird, if a user tries to a create folder
> named "test.1" or "test/1", dovecot will happily create a folder called
> "test", with a subfolder called "1".
> 
> Worse, the top level folder "test" is greyed out, which is how
> Thunderbird displays a folder that can contain only other folders, not
> both folders and files.
> 
> I want to disallow this. Obviously I'd prefer if Thunderbird would
> display a meaningful error, but most likely dovecot cannot control that.
> 
> I don't really care if the user just gets some kind of weird generic
> error or not, I'd just prefer to prevent dovecot from creating the
> problematic folders, and explain the problem to the user if/when they
> call about it (after NOT reading my carefully crafted documentation
> explaining the illegal characters that cannot be used in foldernames).
> 

what about, let the user create such folders

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

Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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