[Dovecot] LAYOUT=maildir++ under mbox?

[William Blunn]

On 06/09/2010 17:30, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 16:57 +0100, William Blunn wrote:
>
>    
>> I think what confused me
>>      
> I think you're still confused :)
>    

I think you're right.

>> Under LAYOUT=fs perhaps the default_separator ought to be '.', and
>> under LAYOUT=maildir++ perhaps the default_separator ought to be '/',
>> regardless of the mailbox format :-)
>>      
> It works like that, except the opposite way. With LAYOUT=fs the default separator is '/' because the hierarchies are separated by the '/' directory separator. With Maildir++ it's '.', because the separator in disk is '.'.
>
> So only the layout determines what hierarchy separator is in use. Of course, each mailbox format has their default layout.
>    

OK. So it does.

I'd been running tests targetting the folder "foo/bar", always with a 
slash separator.

For some reason I had it that with maildir this was mapping down to 
".foo.bar/", but I just tested that again and it doesn't --- the mail 
just ends up in INBOX.

But if I target "foo.bar" undir Maildir it all works.

OK, my mental world model updated to what you just said; now consistent 
with all test results.

Thanks.

Bill