[Dovecot] IMAP --> Creating Folders --> trailing slash

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 12:00 +0100, Andre Hübner wrote:
> i use Dovecot  1.0.7 for pop and imap on Suse Linux 10.1. I need a little 
> help in understanding something.
> If i want to create a folder with outlook express or thunderbird which can 
> also create subfolders, then  i have to create these folders with a trailing 
> slash.
> folders created with trailing slash are in filesystem created als real 
> folders, "normal" folders are created as file.
> Is it possible to change this behavior? I want to create a folders just by 
> typing a name without trailing slash. It should be possible to store 
> messages in this folder or create subfolders.
> Is there any workaround to achieve this goal?

Use maildir format instead of mbox.

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