Author: Daniel Tiefnig Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Maildir Quota excluding Trash folder.
Jakob Hirsch wrote: > Quoting Daniel Tiefnig:
>> Sadfully this is not the case with every IMAP installation out
>> there. (Cyrus e.g. may use "/" instead of "." to delimit
>> subfolders.)
>
> This may be true for the frontend (IMAP), but surely not for the
> backend, which is the only thing that matters to Exim.
Hmm, you're right, I may have misunderstood the Cyrus documentation in
that matter.
>>> folders always begin with a period...
>> And other directories may too.
>
> [1] says: "Within each subdirectory there's an empty file,
> maildirfolder. Its existence tells the mail delivery agent that this
> Maildir is a really a folder underneath a parent Maildir++."
That's fine, as long as the folder (and the "maildirfolder" file)
allready exists...