On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 16:13 -0400, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:03:30PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
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.
I think its most useful thing would be the ability to encapsulate any storage format inside a subfolder/subdirectory, e.g. being able to include an mbox inside of a maildir++ hierarchy. I don't remember if IMAPdir supports that, exactly, and I'm too occupied (er, lazy) to go look it up right now, but my impression was that that would be one of its strong points if it did.
Nothing really prevents that kind of usage with Maildir++ layout either.. :) After v1.0 I'll separate the directory layouts and the actual mailbox handling code. Then we could have eg.:
Maildir++: Maildir/.maildir.subfolder/ Maildir/.mbox.subfolder.file
IMAPdir: Mail/maildir.subfolder/ Mail/mbox.subfolder.file
Real directory layout, whatever it should be called: Mail/maildir/subfolder/ Mail/mbox/subfolder/file
With symlinking and everything being possible..