[Dovecot] directory names - have to begin with a dot?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 20:10 +0300, Tom Alsberg wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 07:11:55PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > Hmm. I guess I didn't then understand the question. It looked like a
> > mixed mbox/maildir tree. Mapping sounds like namespaces that Dovecot
> > already has:
> > 
> >         /               -> $HOME/mbox
> >         /INBOX          -> /var/spool/<username>
> >         /folder         -> $HOME/mail/folder
> >         /folder/foo     -> $HOME/mail/folder/foo
> >         /folder/bar     -> $HOME/mail/folder/bar
> >         /folder/foo/bar -> $HOME/mail/folder/foo/bar
> > 
> > There can't be a mailbox named "/" (or ""), so the first one couldn't
> > work? The others could probably be done using namespaces? Assuming
> > you're talking about only mboxes here, not maildirs.
> 
> Actually, in my example, / and /INBOX are mboxes ($HOME/mbox and
> /var/spool/<username> respectively), while everything in /folder are
> maildirs.  The two wishes I've been trying to demonstrate in this
> example are:  (1) dotless maildirs 

Easy.

> and subfolders, 

Not that easy, but copy&pasting the code from mbox code to maildir code
shouldn't be too difficult if you want it now instead of sometimes after
v1.0.

> and (2) mapping the
> IMAP root folder (I understood there is something like that, that is -
> IMAP mail folders are a rooted hierarchy) to some specific
> mbox/maildir.

There isn't such a thing as IMAP root folder.. INBOX is the closest
thing to that.

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