[Dovecot] Binc IMAP "IMAPdir" style layout

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:53 -0400, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> > I'm in the process of migrating several years worth of mail to be
> > accessible via an IMAP server.  Some time ago, I evaluated both Binc
> > IMAP and Dovecot and found Dovecot to be much faster on large folders,
> > which is quite important to me.  One thing I did not however manage to
> > determine from the documentation on namespaces is whether or not it is
> > possible to implement what Binc IMAP calls an "IMAPdir" style layout.
> 
> <etc>
> 
> See, for example,
> 
>     http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2003-July/001923.html

Actually I thought back then that IMAPdir was using normal directories
for mailbox hierarchy, but it's actually pretty much the same as 
Maildir++, just without the leading dots and with some other small
changes. So even though IMAPdir support could come one day, I don't see
it being very useful.

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