In the immortal words of Andreas Aardal Hanssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Nathan J. Mehl wrote:
> >I would think that this would just be a matter of escaping the "."
> >character when passing the CREATE message to the server... is that not
> >the case?  CourierIMAP never seemed to have a problem with it...
> 
> The problem you see is that Maildir++ does not allow '.' in a mailbox
> name, a restriction whose nature comes from Courier-IMAP, which uses '.'
> as a mailbox hierarchy delimiter. Binc IMAP can not introduce an escaping
> rule in a depot specification that it does not govern.

Okay, but, er... how did Courier do it then?  :)

(It's a reasonable answer, I suppose, but you do advertise BINC as a
more or less dropin replacement for courier...)

> Try using IMAPdir instead. It doesn't have this restriction.

I'll give that a shot -- ISTR that I had some problems with it
previously, but it's been a while...

-n

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