[Dovecot] How Dovecot 2 create folders and subfolders ( MBOX format ) with TB ?

[Frank Bonnet]

On 06/07/2011 10:24 AM, Willie Gillespie wrote:
> On 6/7/2011 1:58 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> When creating new IMAP folder with thunderbird and Dovecot
>> configured with the std MBOX format dovecot create a file in
>> mbox format and so it is not possible to create a subfolder of
>> this folder.
>>
>> If you ask to create a NEW subfolder of the form : TOTO/TATA
>> Dovecot create a directory TOTO containing a mbox file TATA.
>>
>> Very useful :-)
>>
>> I suppose the "/" separator is parsed by dovecot then it creates
>> a directory containing the mbox file. Am I right ?
>
> With MBOX, that is correct.
> You can also just throw a separator at the end, like TOTO/ and it will 
> create a folder that accepts subfolders.  Thunderbird is a little 
> buggy in this area though with how it decides to treat them.
> I submitted a patch last month to help with a bug Timo had found, but 
> of course they haven't done anything about it.
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301714#c15

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Do you have any other  MUA recommendation ?
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