[Dovecot] Maildir structure question

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 11:15 +0100, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
> ~/Maildir/new, ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/tmp directories contain 
> the messages for INBOX. The tmp directory is used during delivery, new 
> messages arrive in new and read shall be moved to cur by the clients. 
> "

Right.

> But in my Maildir, I see this:
> 
> niko at petole:~$ ls -la Maildir/
> total 144
> drwxr-xr-x 35 niko niko 4096 2009-02-06 08:37 .
> drwxr-xr-x 25 niko niko 4096 2009-02-06 10:26 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  5 niko niko 4096 2009-02-06 09:16 .INBOX
> ...
> 
> 
> 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.

No, it's not expected. And you mean Dovecot actually finds the mails
from the .INBOX? I don't really see how/why it would with your
configuration.
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