On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 03:42 PM, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
So this would be the exception: either one or two dots at the start of an
item in IMAPdir represents one dot in the start of the mailbox name:
.foo -> .foo ..foo -> .foo
How does that sound?
Why is that special-cased?
I see why - to differentiate it from "foo", which would map to "foo".
I am not terribly pleased with the solution, but I don't see a clean way to do it, either. The only alternative I can think of is Charlie Bradie's suggestion of simply banning dots in mailbox names, which I was in favor of at first. But that just creates more problems when the user decides to manually move in an mbox file called "foo" into the IMAPdir. Your solution requires no policy, at least.
So unless I get a sudden flash of inspiration, consider me satisfied :-)
-Dan
