Re: patch to prevent mkdir '.'

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu December 27 2007 1:52:27 pm 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)


OK, I'm a bit confused on this here...

Couldn't you point localfolders to the parent dir of your folder hierarchy, 
then have the name start with, say, "folders/" or "folders/.INBOX"?

I'm not sure the patch does the right thing.  What if the top-level Maildir 
really doesn't exist?  What error are you getting?