Re: patch to prevent mkdir '.'

["David L. Emerson" <demerson3x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, maybe it will accept a .gz
On Thursday 27 December 2007 11:52 am, David L. Emerson wrote:
> I was having trouble getting offlineimap to play nice with dovecot and 
> kmail, and I ended up making an oddball nametrans that changes the
> name of the inbox folder to '.'
>
> dovecot_kmail_re = re.compile('^\.?(inbox[./])?', re.IGNORECASE)
> # fn is folder name
> def fix_dovecot_kmail (fn):
>     if fn.lower() in ('inbox', '.inbox', '.'):
>         return '.'
>     return dovecot_kmail_re.sub('.INBOX.', fn, 1)
> 
> 
> The trouble is that offlineimap attempts to create the directory '.'
> and  crashes out. The following patch to
> offlineimap/repository/Maildir.py fixes such a problem
> 
> (I've never used diff patches before, so hopefully this is proper)
> 
> As englightening as that was, I don't think I have the expertise yet
> to make a patch that scans all folders before deleting/transferring
> and uses the imap copy command to reduce bandwidth usage for gmail,
> etc. :D 
> 
> Maybe someday
> 
> ~David.
> 
> 
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> 
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