outlook idiocy - IMAP folders with /

Rupert Gallagher ruga at protonmail.com
Sat Sep 29 14:30:16 EEST 2018


Sorry Aki, you are right.

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 09:59, Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com> wrote:

>> On 29 September 2018 at 10:05 Rupert Gallagher <ruga at protonmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>> A similar problem occurs with "."
>>
>> Sent from ProtonMail Mobile
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 15:44, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at puchar.net> wrote:
>>
>> > user attempts to create folders with /
>> > dovecot naturally cannot create it so it returns error but outlook of
>> > course "create" it and keep data in local store only. data is lost when
>> > you remove local store .pst file.
>> >
>> > The question is - can dovecot be configured so it will automatically
>> > replace slash in name with something else?
>
> And how would this help? Outlook would still go ahead and create the folder with / in it, and dovecot would create a folder with, say - in it and now you'd have two folders.
>
> Aki
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