Moving Maildir folders

[@lbutlr]

> On Jul 17, 2016, at 4:56 PM, Mark Foley <mfoley at ohprs.org> wrote:
> 
> .bpatterson.Foo.Bar/
> .bpatterson.Foo.raB/
> etc
> 
> I never did create
> 
> .bpatterson/
> .bpatterson.Foo/

Neither of these are needed. The path delimiter for IMAP is a . And you do not put maildir folders under maildir folders.

INBOX is the top level maildir folder, and is not normally named INBOX on the filesystem.

Here’s the folder structure for one of my accounts:

drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 May 22  2015 ,Junk
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jul 18 02:14 .Archive
drwxr-xr-x  5 1004  1004    512 Jun 26 13:25 .Archive.OLD
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jul 18 02:15 .Drafts
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jul 18 01:40 .Junk
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jul 18 02:12 .Sent
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jun  9 20:05 .Trash
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jul 17 15:15 .bbedit
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jul 18 01:47 .bind
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jul 18 02:14 .dovecot
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jul 18 02:14 .httpd
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jul 18 01:47 .macosx
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jul 18 01:47 .postfix
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jul 18 01:40 .spamassassin
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jul 18 01:40 .swift
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jul 18 02:12 .tidbits
drwx------  5 1004  1004    512 Jul 19  2015 .tidbits.2014.archive
drwxr-xr-x  2 1004  1004    512 Jun 15 15:00 cur
-rw-------  1 1004  1004     44 Aug 19  2013 dovecot-keywords
-rw-------  1 1004  1004    365 Jun 17 21:12 dovecot-uidlist
-rw-------  1 1004  1004      8 Jul 18 01:45 dovecot-uidvalidity
-rw-------  1 1004  1004    520 Jun  7 09:33 dovecot.index
-rw-------  1 1004  1004   9824 Jul 17 14:18 dovecot.index.cache
-rw-------  1 1004  1004  28008 Jul  3 09:45 dovecot.index.log
-rw-------  1 1004  1004   3120 Jul 10 00:44 dovecot.mailbox.log
-rw-------  1 1004  1004   4200 May 29 07:50 dovecot.mailbox.log.2
drwxr-xr-x  2 1004  1004    512 Jun 13 07:36 new
-rw-------  1 1004  1004     43 Jul 10 00:43 subscriptions
drwxr-xr-x  2 1004  1004    512 Jul 11 19:01 tmp

Notice that .tidbits.2104.archive is three levels down, and the middle level doesn’t exist on its own.

The folders new, tmp, and cur are the Maildir folders for INBOX.

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