On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:21:00AM +0200, Herv? Commowick - NewSports wrote:
that's right..... it's ridiculous, why use real directory for top level and '.' separator for the other ....
In courier-imap I think it's so that the quota file can be found when delivering directly to a folder.
Maildir/ -- contains maildirsize (quota calculation info) Maildir/.foo -- contains maildirfolder (zero bytes) Maildir/.foo.bar -- contains maildirfolder (zero bytes)
When you deliver to a Maildir, if you find a file 'maildirfolder' in it, then you move up to the parent directory to find the quota file.
If it were arranged as
Maildir/foo/bar
then you would need to know that you'd have to go up *two* levels to find the quota file.
Regards,
Brian.