[Dovecot] mbox with sub-folders and messages?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Mar 28 20:47:27 EET 2008


On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 14:25 -0400, Richard Lefebvre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to have dovecot configured to use mbox format and yet
> have folders that contains sub-folders and messages? I'm thinking of
> a simple setup where any files directory with extension .sbd are
> presented to the IMAP client without the extension. So if you have a
> mbox file named BOX01 and a directory name BOX01.sdb would show has one
> on the client side (note: that is the way Thunderbird keeps it's mail
> locally).
> 
> I know that the Maildir format does the sub-folders+messages, but I'm
> not really interested by the one file per email.

With v1.1 you could have maildir++ directory layout with mboxes
(mbox:~/mail:LAYOUT=maildir):

~/mail/.mbox1
~/mail/.mbox1.submbox

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