[Dovecot] Not using . as separator?

2008-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
When using maildir storage, is there any way to use something besides . as the folder separator? I like to use folder names that match people's e-mail addresses (that's a default behavior in mutt), and . is a pretty popular character in e-mail addresses. Ideally, I'd like to use /. Is .

Re: [Dovecot] Not using . as separator?

2008-03-06 Thread Fábio M. Catunda
Edwards, You can use / as separator, but maybe you still have some problems. I made a quick test here to know if a dot is allowed, I'm using Thunderbird. When I created the folder teste.ponto, TB understud that ponto is a subfolder of teste. I don't know if this is a client issue or a

Re: [Dovecot] Not using . as separator?

2008-03-06 Thread pod
GE == Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GE When using maildir storage, is there any way to use something GE besides . as the folder separator? Please note that the following relates to dovecot 1.0. I've not looked to see if 1.1 behaves differently. Yes you can use a namespace

Re: [Dovecot] Not using . as separator?

2008-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-03-06, pod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GE When using maildir storage, is there any way to use something GE besides . as the folder separator? Please note that the following relates to dovecot 1.0. I've not looked to see if 1.1 behaves differently. Yes you can use a namespace

Re: [Dovecot] Not using . as separator?

2008-03-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 16:25 +, Grant Edwards wrote: then standard Maildir++ utilities are likely to get confused because a folder known to the client as a.b will appear in the filesystem with a name of 'a\2eb'. That's a pain. With v1.1 you could use a normal directory layout for

Re: [Dovecot] Not using . as separator?

2008-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-03-06, Timo Sirainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 16:25 +, Grant Edwards wrote: then standard Maildir++ utilities are likely to get confused because a folder known to the client as a.b will appear in the filesystem with a name of 'a\2eb'. That's a pain.

Re: [Dovecot] Not using . as separator?

2008-03-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 23:15 +, Grant Edwards wrote: With v1.1 you could use a normal directory layout for maildirs as well with: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs That will be wonderful! I never really understood why people decided to try to emulate a filesystem

Re: [Dovecot] Not using . as separator?

2008-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-03-06, Timo Sirainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. If maildirfolder file doesn't exist, update maildirsize file 2. If maildirfolder file does exists, update ../maildirsize It all works, but having to use IMAP to access files that are right there in ~/Mail bugs me. :) I think it's

Re: [Dovecot] Not using . as separator?

2008-03-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 23:42 +, Grant Edwards wrote: My usual MUA (mutt) manages its own header cache database, and it's quite fast with local files. What slows things down when using IMAP is the TLS startup and authentication. Disabling TSL for localhost would probably help... You

Re: [Dovecot] Not using . as separator?

2008-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-03-07, Timo Sirainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 23:42 +, Grant Edwards wrote: My usual MUA (mutt) manages its own header cache database, and it's quite fast with local files. What slows things down when using IMAP is the TLS startup and authentication.