On 23 Aug 2015, at 12:25, Hadmut Danisch hadmut@danisch.de wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to deal with the problem, that under regular mbox format a path can lead to either a file or a directory, but not both, while under IMAP, a path is usually both, a message folder containing subfolders.
I found dovecot's approach to this problem, the Maildir++ layout described under http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MboxChildFolders , and was astonished to see, what problems come with Maildir++ and how complicated dovecot tries to deal with them.
I wonder why dovecot is not using a much easier approach and just uses a configurable prefix and/or suffix like .dir or ____ for directory names, e.g.
It can do it. See:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MboxChildFolders