On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:53 -0400, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
I'm in the process of migrating several years worth of mail to be accessible via an IMAP server. Some time ago, I evaluated both Binc IMAP and Dovecot and found Dovecot to be much faster on large folders, which is quite important to me. One thing I did not however manage to determine from the documentation on namespaces is whether or not it is possible to implement what Binc IMAP calls an "IMAPdir" style layout.
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See, for example,
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2003-July/001923.html
Actually I thought back then that IMAPdir was using normal directories for mailbox hierarchy, but it's actually pretty much the same as Maildir++, just without the leading dots and with some other small changes. So even though IMAPdir support could come one day, I don't see it being very useful.