[Dovecot] Missing IMAP folders

Willem Jan Withagen wjw at digiware.nl
Tue Mar 4 13:58:18 EET 2008


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> 
>> However I have over 3500 folders and most of them are more than 3 
>> levels deep.
>> And I only get to see the first top level of directories.
>> Searching and/or subscribing does not bring anything.
> 
> Are they stored in subdirectories in filesystem? Dovecot v1.1 would 
> support that, but v1.0 supports only Maildir++ directory layout. 
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir#maildir++

Directories was perhaps the wrong word to use.
No they just follow the maildir format .aaa.bbb.ccc
So ccc is a subfolder of bbb which is a subfolder of aaa

> Although I thought that Binc also supported only maildir++ and imapdir, 
> and I thought imapdir also used a maildir++-like flat layout?

AFAIK Binc does not understand much other than the basics....

--WjW



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