[Dovecot] Possible to Customize File Naming Scheme?

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

On Seg, 12 Set 2011, Dave Stubbs wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm watching how my mail system works, and I see that procmail  
> creates a new file in the <folder>/new directory, each time an email  
> is received.  This file is some complex combination of UIDs and  
> things, suffixed by the server name.  So far, the filename has  
> alphanumerics, a couple underscores, and a dot or two only.
>
> But once dovecot gets it's hands on the file and moves it to the  
> <folder>/cur directory, it starts doing "terrible" things to the  
> file name.  Now, the filename starts to have "evil" things in it,  
> like colons and commas.

The colon and commas are part of the Maildir spec[0], so no, it can't  
be changed.

[0]http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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