Dovecot path separator clarification

Alex JOST jost+lists at dimejo.at
Fri Dec 15 19:42:55 EET 2017


Am 15.12.2017 um 18:35 schrieb Davide Marchi:
> Hi Friends,
> On Debian Jessie and Dovecot 1:2.2.x using the default separator "/" 
> (simply leave commented 10-mail.conf -> "#separator =")
> 
> I've create for a vuser (from client) a subfolder Scuola/prova
> 
> on server side, Dovecot create:
> 
> ../Maildir/.Scuola.prova
> 
> Here my question: why not
> 
> ../Maildir/Scuola/prova ?

The mailbox separator doesn't change the filesystem layout. See:

   https://wiki.dovecot.org/Namespaces#Hierarchy_separators

-- 
Alex JOST


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