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>>>>> Nicolas KOWALSKI <Nicolas.Kowalski@imag.fr>:

> Hello.

> At work, I use the nnimap backend, which "talks" to an UW-imapd
> server.
[snip!]
> My problem is : when I try to rename (G r) the group "perso/famille"
> to something like "perso/famille/misc", Gnus tells me the group has
> an invalid name...I suspect Gnus to not tolerate '/' characters in
> group names, but that is what I need in my case.

> Any idea(s) ?

Whether you can make subfolders of existing folders in UoW imapd,
depends on the folder format used by the imapd.

The UNIX mbox format, which used to be the default folder format of
UoW imapd (I don't know if it still is), does not support subfolders.