[Dovecot] On mailboxes, separators, and dovecot2

4 Oct 2013

      While I was running dovecot 1.2.9, I had my mailboxes using the
old Courier IMAP format. i.e. my mailboxes would look like
INBOX.Orders.Scams
Going to dovecot 2 (but not 2.1), I see to have a few questions:

It seems I would device my mailbox thingies in 10-mail.conf:

namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
separator = .
location =
prefix = INBOX.
type = private
mailbox SPAM {
auto=subscribe
special_use = \Junk
}
mailbox Trash {
auto=subscribe
special_use = \Trash
}
mailbox Sent {
auto=subscribe
special_use = \Sent
}
}
but how would I prepresent my INBOX.Orders.Scams folder? Something like
mailbox Orders.Scams {
auto=subscribe
}
perhaps?

Reading (am I literate?) through
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Namespaces, it seems having separator = . is
not only outdated but also a bad idea (but, I had child mailboxes as
shown above). Could anybody elaborate one that? And which clients
still do  LSUB *?

[Dovecot] On mailboxes, separators, and dovecot2

Mauricio Tavares