[Dovecot] Mixing mbox and maildir

[Timo Sirainen]

On 21.3.2005, at 08:12, Tom Alsberg wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 03:16:23PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On 6.3.2005, at 13:48, Tom Alsberg wrote:
>>> <snip />
>>> Is there no way to just have Dovecot detect whether the mailbox is in
>>> maildir or mbox format on opening?
>>
>> There's no way for now.
>
> Are there any plans to add this option?  How difficult would it be to
> change Dovecot to check the type on open?  Any guidance on how to do
> that?

The problem is that currently the mailbox listing code is combined with 
the actual mailbox format handling code. They would have to be 
separated in some way so that the mailbox handling code is run only 
when mailbox is being opened. Except there would also have to be some 
kind of mailbox format specific filters in the listing code, so that 
nothing would be shown under "~/mail/foo" if ~/mail/foo/new (and cur 
and tmp?) exists.
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