On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Javier Calahorra Novillo wrote:
> Ok, thanks for your help. What we needed was something like this:
>
> /mailboxes/javi/Maildir/new
> cur
> tmp
> .myfolder
> .myfolder/new
> .myfolder/cur
> .myfolder/tmp
>
> But seeing that it's not possible with exim directly, I will create
> additional folders by using the maildirmake command.
That *is* possible with Exim directly. What is not possible up to Exim
4.61 is to create the .../Maildir/.myfolder/maildirfolder file. However,
there has just been some discussion and change on this issue.
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Marc Sherman wrote:
> > Why? Is it mandatory to have those directories? This would prevent
> > somebody having *only* subfolders and no "main" folder.
>
> By my read of the maildir++ spec, it is, in fact, mandatory. However,
> that's no reason for Exim to require it; be liberal in what you accept
> and all that. I think that logging a warning when creating
> "maildirfolder" in a dir that matches the regex but isn't within a valid
> maildir would be a very good idea, however.
I have just committed some new code to the CVS (so that it will be in
tonight's snapshot, and in the 4.62 release, which I want to get out
next week - because of the other changes, which are bugfixes). The new
code implements
maildirfolder_create_regex = a regular expression
If the pattern matches the directory in which {new,cur,tmp} are to be
found or created, then a file called maildirfolder, in the same
directory, is created if it does not already exist.
I have NOT implemented any test (and therefore no warnings or defers)
for {new,cur,tmp} in the superior directory. My reasoning is that, if
this were done, the sysadmin would have to pre-create those directories
in case the first message was delivered by Exim into a subfolder. If you
are going to do pre-creation anyway, you might as well pre-create
everything and not bother with maildirfolder_create_regex at all.
Philip
--
Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service.
