Ability to define a custom hierarchy separator for dovecot

[martinhartmann]

Is there any chance to include an environment variable to define a custom hierarchy separator? The current default is a dot . which is extremely annoying, because obviously I can't create a single folder with a dot in it as it gets displayed

as a
    subfolder

Can you make it customizable in any future release?

[Nebukadneza]

Hi There,

The Mailu-Project is currently in a bit of a bind! We are short on man-power, and we need to judge if it is possible for us to put in some work on this issue.

To help with that, we are currently trying to find out which issues are actively keeping users from using Mailu, which issues have someone who want to work on them — and which issues may be less important. These a less important ones could be discarded for the time being, until the project is in a more stable and regular state once again.

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[NicolasGoeddel]

Oh god, is this really not possible?
I just migrated from an old postfix/dovecot deployment that uses / as a separator to Mailu, and now all my folders that have a . in it are renamed which in turn completely destroyed my filters in Thunderbird. -.-

Please! How can I change that separator while maintaining the functionality of Mailu itself?

[NicolasGoeddel]

I just tested it and it seems this is all it needs to switch from . to /.

!! Attention: Don't change the mail_location setting if your mail dir is already in use and not empty !!

/overrides/dovecot/dovecot.conf

mail_location = maildir:/mail/%u:LAYOUT=fs
namespace inbox {
  inbox = yes
  separator = /
  
  mailbox Trash {
    auto = subscribe
    special_use = \Trash
  }
  
  mailbox Drafts {
    auto = subscribe
    special_use = \Drafts
  }
  
  mailbox Sent {
    auto = subscribe
    special_use = \Sent
  }
  
  mailbox Junk {
    auto = subscribe
    special_use = \Junk
  }
}

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[NicolasGoeddel]

This is still a good feature request.