[Dovecot] IMAP - many folders?

[Piotr Krukowiecki]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:49:27AM +1100, Gregory Bond wrote:
> Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
> 
> >So my question is "how hard would it be to change sources to make '/' to
> >be default delimiter"?
> 
> Maildir specifically uses .folder.folder names so that the IMAP server 
> can find _all_ the folders by reading a single top-level directory.  If 
> sub-folders were stored ../folder/folder, then the IMAP server would 
> have to scan the entire mail directory (in my case, several gigabytes) 
> every time it started up, so it could find the list of folders.

I see the point...

Scanning only top level directory and not scanning sub directories, but
allowing user to access them if they specify them directly would be some
kind of solution.

Is it possibile to set default maildir to ~/Mail/Maildir/ and to use
~/Mail as a containter for all .folder directories? I couldn't achieve
it. That would help me a little.


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