On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Robin Bowes wrote:
>So for example, for this list, the "List-Post:
><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" header would be matched and the message
>stored in the folder Lists.binc.
>This has worked fine for many months. However, now I have got two mailing
>lists with the same name at different domains. So, I've decided to use
>the whole of the list address as the folder name, e.g
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of just Lists.binc. The problem I've just
>run into is that the period in the domain name is the IMAP separater
>character so my mail clients see a lists folder, with a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>inside, then another folder "org" inside the [EMAIL PROTECTED] folder.
>Is there an easy way to fix this without munging the list names, e.g.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] or similar?

Using an IMAPdir depot, the '.' character can be used regardlessly in a
mailbox name. The actual mailbox will be stored like this:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Maildir> ls -ald INBOX*A
drwxr-xr-x    5 andreaha users         120 2004-07-18 10:07 INBOX\.A

In IMAP, this is displayed as a regular dot, so the mailbox would be
called INBOX.A and not INBOX/A or INBOX\\/A.

But with Maildir++, nothing like this is specified, so the typical
Maildir++ server would interpret the \. sequence as a legal character
followed by the delimiter. Of course, this works fine, but it doesn't give
the same semantics.

So for IMAPdir, just go ahead. But with Maildir++, it can't be done.

Andy :-)

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Author of Binc IMAP      |  "It is better not to do something
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