Re: [exim] Planning MBOX to MAILDIR Migration

Marc Perkel wrote:
> I'm a little confused about maildir. How does it deal with folders?
>
>

Two ways... (and a half?, with Maildir+)

;-)

The 'classical' has them as subdirs under .INBOX, and/or further subdirs under
subdirs etc. ad (some finite, but arbitrarily large, OS & fs-sepcific) limit.

The Dovecot way doesn't require them to be under .INBOX, and can mix and match,
i.e 'see' and present to MUA both legacy qmail/courier/SquirrelMail structure
(if in place) plus its own more flexible one.

If/as/when you have a variety of clients, epsecially if some are webmail, such
as SqurrelMail, then the Dovecot flexibility is *very* handy, as otherwise
folders created with one family of MUA/Web interface can end up 'hidden' from
the other interface - cause for 'where is my...' service calls.

NB: with some of these, they 'hide' anyway, but at least all are visible to a
'proper' MUA, such as Mozilla/SeaMonkey, just to name a readily available
cross-platform one.

Exim, of course, does whatever it is told, w/r you can intentionally 'hide' some
folders from a Webmail interface to reduce the risk a traveler might have.

Bill