Error renaming folders with spaces

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Mon Oct 27 09:09:35 UTC 2014


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On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, mtrainer at cloud-free.com wrote:

>>> I am getting frequent errors of
> the form below. In most cases the path has spaces in it. Oct 24 07:27:08
> mailstore03 dovecot: imap(sam at userdomain.com.au [1]): Error:
> rename(/home8/rs7-username/mail/xyzmortgages.com.au/sam/.Valuations -
> ABC, /home8/rs7-username/mail/xyzmortgages.com.au/sam/.Valuations -
> ABC/Subfolder) failed: Invalid argument Any ideas what is causing these
> errors? mail_location = maildir:~/
>>
>> the "/Subfolder" part looks
> erroreously for me.
>>
>> Your setup does not support slashes in mailbox
> names.
>
> Thanks for the response. I did some testing
> and the error messages I get from Outlook vary and are not very helpful.
> If I try to rename a folder from test to test/2 I get an error "Server
> bug: Internal error occurred". I I try renaming a folder "test 1" to
> "test 1/ 2" I get an error "NONEXISTENT: Mailbox doesn't exist :
> INBOX.test 1". Is there any way I can support the '/' character with my
> configuration without changing the format of all my mailboxes?

Check out: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/Listescape
but search the list archive for problems with it. I do not use it myself.

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Steffen Kaiser
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