Hello,
Those "ugly characters" are there for a reason: they are specified by
the Maildir standard (and the Dovecot's extensions to it) to encode
various metadata such as message ID, size, flags, etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
https://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/mailbox_formats/maildir/
Also, why the "filename esthetics" even matters? The maildir directory
is not supposed to be viewed (let alone directly accessed or modified)
by a user. Mail clients and Dovecot provide useful (as well as
format-independent and universal) human-oriented interfaces and admin tools.
Best wishes,
Eugene
On 31.07.2023 09:43, Fourhundred Thecat via Postfix-users wrote:
Hello,
I am using Maildir format on my server (Postfix + Dovecot).
The individual filenames have this format:
1690633510.M94611123819.mail,S=11706,W=12202:2,S
Now, I have another, unrelated email account (not my mail server), and I
have set up Thunderbird with local Maildir support. When I look inside
the folder, the emails have this nice and clear format:
for received:
[email protected]
for sent:
[email protected]
how could I have such nice filenames on my server, with useful
information in the filename, instead of those ugly containing special
characters like '=' and ':' ?
Do the nioe filenames come from Thunderbird, or from the mailserver ?
thanks,
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