[Dovecot] 1.0.alpha1: Namespaces

[Wolfram Schlich]

* Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de> [2005-09-06 13:12]:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Wolfram Schlich wrote:
> 
> >Every new (sub)folder I create is stored as
> >
> >	~/.maildir/.Folder
> >	resp.
> >	~/.maildir/.Folder.Subfolder
> >
> >in the filesystem.
> >
> >Are namespaces the right way?
> >Is it possible at all?
> 
> This is how MailDir works actually, the separator is for the client to 
> know how to separate the mail subfolders and does not apply to mail 
> storage.
> 
> Meaning: When a client talks to the IMAP server, it must use:
> 
> SELECT "Folder/Subfolder"
> 
> But on disk you always get .Folder.Subfolder, because MailDir is designed 
> like that.

Ah! Thanks for clearing that up.
Do you have any design document reference at hand?
-- 
Wolfram Schlich