<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">14. 10. 2020 v 13:39, Sami Ketola <<a href="mailto:sami@ketola.io" class="">sami@ketola.io</a>>:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">On 14. Oct 2020, at 14.20, @lbutlr <<a href="mailto:kremels@kreme.com" class="">kremels@kreme.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">On 14 Oct 2020, at 04:24, Sami Ketola <<a href="mailto:sami@ketola.io" class="">sami@ketola.io</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 14. Oct 2020, at 12.51, Victor Sudakov <<a href="mailto:vas@sibptus.ru" class="">vas@sibptus.ru</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Those Mac clients who do not use nested folders do not seem to be<br class="">affected. That is, I've already suggested to the Mac Mail user that he<br class="">start Thunderbird, move all his mailboxes into the IMAP root folder, and<br class="">then go on using Mac Mail. I hope that's what he has done.<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">There is a bug in Mail.app that it always assumes / as hierarchy separator and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">completely ignores server provided separator.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Cite? Because no, that is not my experience at all.<br class=""><br class="">From my maildir on my FreeBSD server:<br class=""><br class=""># ls -lnd .root*<br class="">drwx------ 5 89 89 512 Oct 14 05:16 .root<br class="">drwx------ 5 89 89 512 Oct 14 02:02 .root.44<br class="">drwx------ 5 89 89 512 Oct 14 02:02 .root.Cron<br class="">drwx------ 5 89 89 512 Oct 14 05:16 .root.Hastur<br class="">… etc<br class=""><br class="">Works fine in Mail.app on Mac OS and has for at least 16 years.<br class=""></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I just tested it with my Dovecot 2.2.36 setup. I did set up an account with '.' as separator and created some folders.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">First mail.app succeeded in creating test root folder but when I tried to create subfolder 'test2' under 'test' Mail.app issued</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">CREATE "test/test2" folder instead of "test.test2". And then failed to list the created folder completely.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Everything worked if I did set separator to '/'</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">In my case, having the hierarchy separator set to '/', subfolders created using the Mail client in macOS Catalina resulted in '.folder\2esubfolder‘ on disk (2e corresponds to '.‘). I had to change the hierarchy separator to a dot.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So exactly the opposite!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-F</div></body></html>