[Dovecot] Maildir structure question

[Nicolas KOWALSKI]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:32:41AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Nicolas KOWALSKI schrieb:
> > There are no 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp' directories in ~/Maildir, as written 
> > in the wiki, but instead this .INBOX directory which contains these 
> > 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp'.
> > 
> > Is this expected ? Thanks.
> 
> The namespace and folder structure needs to be reflected in Maildir - I
> presume that namespace configuration also has a say in the layout. For me,
> who runs Dovecot without namespace configuration, Dovecot has the layout
> you expect. So I'd say it's the namespace configuration that causes INBOX
> to appear as a subdirectory of Maildir/.

Well, I expected the namespace to change the folder layout presentation 
to the IMAP client, not to modify the underlying folder layout.

Thanks for your reply,
-- 
Nicolas