[Dovecot] wish now I'd not upgraded...

[Timo Sirainen]

Well, the issue is, with mbox, you can decide if the name you create:

a) can hold child mailboxes, or messages

or

b) messages, and no mailboxes

it makes more sense when you think about them as directories and files. WIth mbox a mailbox is a file. So:

~/mailbox/inbox
~/mailbox/foo/
~mailbox/foo/bar

in such setup inbox is a file and of course you can't create ~/mailbox/inbox/children files or directories. but ~/mailbox/foo/ is a directory, so you can create files or directories under it. But the foo itself is a directory, not an mbox file.

So with mbox the important thing is to either add nor not add the '/' trailing character to created mailbox names.

(And to think that with BikINI they thought this was a good feature of IMAP, not a bad one..)

On 15.2.2010, at 18.21, Stewart Dean wrote:

> Well, I had the same problem and a colleague pointed me to this cockeyed black-is-white TB config setting:
> Under Account Settings, Server Settings, Server Settings, Advanced, *UN*click "Server supports folders that contain sub-folders and messages".  Then you can create sub-folders.  Doesn't make any sense at all....but then it's Monday and the Red Queen is everywhere spreading the joys of enhanced entropy.......
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> Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> Speaking of which, I've tried creating empty imap folders and then creating
>> subfolders in them.  TB won't allow me to do this with Dovecot mbox accounts.
>> Shouldn't I be able to do this?  I've tried it with and without
>> tb-extra-mailbox-sep enabled.  I've read multiple places that tiered mbox imap
>> folders should be possible, as long as the main folder contains no messages,
>> only pointers to other mbox files, or "imap sub folders".
>> 
>> Is this a TB limitation, a dovecot limitation, or my knowledge limitation?
>> 
>> Thanks Timo.
>> 
>>  
> 
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