Re: [SM-DEVEL] Courier IMAP/Maildirs Question

[Sunil W. S. <sa...@in...>]

> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:45:14AM -0400, Sunil William Savkar wrote:
>> I recently switched to using Courier IMAP on my dev machine from
>> UW-IMAP. So far so good but there are a few things that are somewhat
>> annoying.
>
> Get the safecat package so you can use safecat (or the maildir
> wrapper). Very handy.
>
>> For instance, do all mailboxes end up having to be children of
>> "Inbox"?
>
> Yes.  In "real life" all folders are subdirectories of ~/Maildir
> named things like `.Folder.Subfolder' which in IMAP look like
> `INBOX.Folder.Subfolder'.  If you set your prefix to "INBOX." in
> most clients it will take this into account and promote the immediate
> subfolders of INBOX to toplevel folders.  I sent a patch to this list
> to do the same for squirrelmail a long time ago.
>
>> This is not true for the normal mbox style, but apparently seems to be
>> for maildirs.
>
> But one advantage of Maildir is that folders can contain other folders
> AND messages.
>
> --
> Ben Jackson
> <be...@be...>
> http://www.ben.com/

Thanks ben!

Sunil