Hierarchy separator recommendation?

[Admin Beckspaced]

Hello Edgaras,

what sort of troubles did you run into with the dot '.' as namespace 
separator?

thanks & greetings
Becki

Am 24.04.2020 um 15:32 schrieb Edgaras Lukoševičius:
> The dot '.' will work, but I suggest to follow documentation here: 
> https://wiki1.dovecot.org/Namespaces,
>
> And it says:
>
> A commonly used separator is '/'. It probably causes the least amount 
> of trouble with different IMAP clients
>
> And I already had problems using '.' as a namespace separator.
>
>
> On 2020-04-24 15:56, Sami Ketola wrote:
>>
>>> On 24. Apr 2020, at 15.27, Admin Beckspaced <admin at beckspaced.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear dovecot list,
>>>
>>> I'm using Maildir as mailbox format.
>>>
>>> Is there any recommendation for the namespace hierarchy separator?
>>>
>>> Currently I didn't set any. So it is the default of dot '.'
>> this should work.
>>
>>> I'm switiching from a rather unknown IMAP Server called DBMail 
>>> (http://www.dbmail.org/)
>>> Planning to synchronize the mailboxes via imapsync 
>>> (https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync)
>>>
>> Please be aware that imapsync does not migrate all data. It loses UID 
>> and POP3UIDL information. If you plan to keep on using the same 
>> domain, then you need to instruct your end users to invalidate the 
>> local caches on their devices.
>> With most client applications means removing and readding account and 
>> redownloading all emails. (or atleast headers)
>>
>>> Or can i always change this namespace hierarchy separator later on?
>> This would cause similar caching problems on end user devices.
>>
>> Sami
>
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