On Jul 2, 2005, at 07:32, Martin Lucina wrote:
Hi,
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.
IMAPdir lets me layout mailboxes in the filesystem like so:
$HOME/ Maildir/ <---- users mail goes here Mail/ <---- IMAP root INBOX -> ../Maildir/ <---- (symlink) folder/ <---- some other mailbox in Maildir
format folder.subfolder/ <---- '.' is the hierarchy separator folder.subfolder-2/ other-folder/So IMAP clients subscribe to 'INBOX' and 'folder' and 'folder/ subfolder' respectively.
This gives me two features that I want:
- The ability to easily access all my mail using a command line
Maildir capable client such as nail, for when I'm connection over a super-slow SSH over GPRS connection. Also, I can actually see my folders (and their subfolders) without having to look for Maildir++ style names
with 'ls -a' (e.g. Maildir/.subfolder/).
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One problem I've had with using dovecot (and it looks like other imap servers do this as well) and a CLI Maildir client (mutt) is that
whenever
I access the Maildirs via IMAP, all new messages get moved to cur/.
Mutt (w/ my config) marks unread messages in cur/ as O (old) rather
than N (new). Messages in new/ are marked N, and (the kicker) only
mailboxes with messages in new/ are marked as having new messages.
I'd really like to have messages that are accessed via dovecot (IMAP)
stay in new/, is there a reason that they get moved to cur/ ? I've
dug around some (both in dovecot and general maildir googling),
haven't found an answer.
Thanks much,
-eric