Jakob Hirsch wrote:
> Quoting W B Hacker:
>
>> 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.
>
> http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html:
> --- cut --
> Can folders have subfolders, defined in a recursive fashion? The answer
> is no.
*snip*
Sam is the unquestioned oracle on Courier as-it-is-intended-to-be-used, and
true, AFAIK, courier-imap will not 'create' such a subdir structure.
I'd have to re-install it to determine if it will *present* it if it finds it in
place (created by Exim, for example), but I suspect it will do so.
Dovecot certainly does, and it is not alone. Some others do not.
======
conducive# ls /data/mail/conducive.org/wbh/Maildir
.INBOX .Sent .Trash
.subscriptions dovecot-keywords dovecot.index
dovecot.index.log new tmp
.INBOX.Suspect .Suspect .customflags cur
dovecot-uidlist dovecot.index.cache
dovecot.index.log.2 subscriptions
======
conducive# ls /data/mail/conducive.org/wbh/Maildir/.Suspect
.customflags .imap.index.data .imap.index.tree
dovecot-keywords dovecot.index dovecot.index.log new
.imap.index .imap.index.log cur
dovecot-uidlist dovecot.index.cache dovecot.index.log.2 tmp
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Screenshot attachment of what it looks like in the MUA may not 'convey' over
Mailman, but the two '.Suspect' folders are in the expected, and different
places, and each serves its assigned task.
NB: Dovecot also handles file links so that a 'helpdesk' manager can have
oversight of staff/client correspondence as if they were his own folders. Those
links and their privs are manually created, of course, but if need be....
'The difficult done immediately....' etc.
Bill
