Am 08.02.2011 18:14, schrieb Willie Gillespie:
On 02/08/2011 08:54 AM, Lukas Haase wrote:
Dear list,
A dumb question: What exactly is the effect of the separator?
Is it also used to separate in the underlying file system? I.e. when I
have the separator '/', the IMAP folder Sent/Jan is physically stored as
As far as I understand, the separator is used in the context of IMAP
only, and not the file system.
Dear Willie,
So if I understand correctly, if I set '/' as separator, the Maildir
layout will still be
.Folder1.subfolder
?
Thank you for this hint, I think this is clear now.
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Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe it has an
effect on the backend (besides disallowing the use of that character in
a folder name).
Thank you for your reply!
Regards,
Luke
