Re: [maildropl] maildir question / Mutt related as well
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From: Robin B. <rob...@ro...> - 2003-04-28 20:20:38
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On Mon, April 28, 2003 2:46 pm, "Rick Reumann" said: > > Maybe I'm misinterpreting what the man page say. man maildirmake says: > > <quote> > Folders are simply subdirectories inside the main maildir whose > names start with a period, and which are themselves maildirs. For > example, the command "maildirmake -f Drafts mail/Maildir" creates > mail/Maildir/.Drafts, that has the usual tmp, new and cur. You MUST use > the -f option, instead of specifying mail/Maildir/.Drafts > directly, in order to correctly initialize certain enhanced maildir > features. > > Folders cannot be created directly within other folders. > Running maildirmake -f Urgent mail/Maildir/.Drafts will not work. > Instead, the period character is designated as a hierarchy > separator, run maildirmake -f Drafts.Urgent mail/Maildir instead. This > creates mail/Maildir/.Drafts.Urgent, and all mail software > that supports enhanced maildirs will interpret it as a subfolder Urgent > of the Drafts folder. > </end quote man maildirmake> > > I'm confused why maildirmake says the above? It sounds like they are > saying subfolders do have this '.' structure? This is maildirmake from the courier package. This directory structure is required in order to work with courier. The actual maildir protocol has no such limitations. R. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com |