[Dovecot] LDAP Bind

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:21:00AM +0200, Herv? Commowick - NewSports wrote:
> that's right..... it's ridiculous, why use real directory for top level 
> and '.' separator for the other ....

In courier-imap I think it's so that the quota file can be found when
delivering directly to a folder.

  Maildir/             -- contains maildirsize (quota calculation info)
  Maildir/.foo         -- contains maildirfolder (zero bytes)
  Maildir/.foo.bar     -- contains maildirfolder (zero bytes)

When you deliver to a Maildir, if you find a file 'maildirfolder' in it,
then you move up to the parent directory to find the quota file.

If it were arranged as

  Maildir/foo/bar

then you would need to know that you'd have to go up *two* levels to find
the quota file.

Regards,

Brian.