[Dovecot] mbox with sub-folders and messages?

[Richard Lefebvre]

Thank you, by using "LAYOUT=maildir++" on 1.1rc3 it worked. I still
would suggest the .sdb directory concept. It would evade the limitation
of filenames length which I think it is 255, unless it has changed in
recent years.

Richard

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 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
>