[Dovecot] 1.0-test22 - maildir fixed?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 29 17:56:48 EEST 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 15:02, Maikel Verheijen wrote:
> > Perhaps Dovecot should require at least minimal compliance from maildir
> > filenames so problem like these wouldn't happen. IIRC Courier requires
> > that filename starts with digit, otherwise it isn't touched.
> >
> > Anyone have opinions either way?
> Why not hold on to the maildir standard and enforce that? 

Well, it seems a bit bad for me to constantly waste CPU for things that
aren't needed for anything else than catching other people's
configuration mistakes.

Checking the first character is a simple check and I could live with
that, fully checking the filename is nearing bloat.

> Maybe complain about invalid mail-files?

Probably, yes..

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