Quoting Wilko Bulte, who wrote on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 05:53:10PM +0100 .. > Quoting Timo Sirainen, who wrote on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 05:26:54PM +0200 .. > > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 19:13 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > - On my new system I have dovecot v 1.2.8 which refuses to handle > > > > > these > > > > > dot-seperated files. I get the somewhat familiar > > > > > "Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes". > > > > > > > I have attached the dovecot -n from my dovecot 1.2.8 which does not want > > > to > > > accept firstname.initial.lastname. This is the dovecot128.conf file. > > > > I don't see anything obviously wrong. Try talking IMAP protocol > > directly, maybe your client is doing something wrong. > > > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation > > > > After login try something like: > > > > a create foo.bar.baz > > b select foo.bar.baz > > > > If that succeeds, it's probably client issue. Recreating the account > > Looks like this is working just fine: > > a login wb foo > a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT > SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE > CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC > ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH] Logged in > a create foo.bar.baz > a OK Create completed. > b select foo.bar.baz > * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) > * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags > permitted. > * 0 EXISTS > * 0 RECENT > * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1266511425] UIDs valid > * OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID > * OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1] Highest > b OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed. > > as it resulted in the creation of foo.bar.baz like so: > > -rw------- 1 wb wb 0 Feb 18 17:43 foo.bar.baz > > Hmmmmm... fascinating.. > > I'll investigate further, thanks for your kind help sofar!
While talking to the same dovecot 1.2.8 server: Mutt 1.5.18 (2008-05-17) works OK with first.initial.last mboxes and Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) does NOT work with first.initial.last mboxes So it looks like I was totally offtrack in assuming dovecot was at fault. My apologies. I'll see if I can find out more Wilko