Ban dots in folder names

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Wed Jan 11 09:53:51 UTC 2017


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On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Marek Grondecki wrote:

> separator = /
> listescape plugin is NOT active
> LAYOUT=fs is NOT active
>
> I would like to prohibit/ban the creation of folders with dot "." in the 
> names -
> so creation of a folder "foo.bar" should NOT be possible.
> Currently, when I create "foo.bar" in Outlook 2013 it will be created but 
> won't be
> synchronised with the mail server - Outlook shows it as "foo.bar (Only this 
> computer)".
> Ideally the user should receive an error message informing that "the folder 
> foo.bar
> could not be created."

Ah, your situation is different then mine, I use separator = ., then you 
get subfolders in this case.

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Steffen Kaiser
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