[Dovecot] Nested folders in FS supported yet?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Dec 3 14:19:17 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 17:26 -0500, Sweth Chandramouli wrote:
> The last time I checked, dovecot didn't support having nested IMAP
> folders be implemented via actual nested maildir folders in the
> filesystem, but that feature was on the "someday maybe it'll happen
> list", IIRC.  I can't find any recent mention of that feature or its
> absence on the web or in the list archives; is it still on the someday
> list?

It's actually half-implemented now in CVS HEAD (for other reasons).
Wouldn't require too much changing anymore to get it fully working. But
it's not a priority for me, so I can't say when it's done.

> (If it isn't implemented yet, does anyone know of an IMAP server that
> DOES support it?)

I don't think there are any. Maildir++ directory layout is pretty
standard.

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