On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:57:11AM -0400, Bill Cole wrote:
At 12:42 AM -0400 9/18/07, Benjamin R. Haskell imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding:
... [existence of maildirfolder file]
had no ill effect on the visibility of my folders. That said, I also don't use quotas of any kind, so I can't speak as to its effects on the '++' of Maildir++.
That's interesting.
I'm still using 1.0.0 and had a folder that did not appear to my clients until I added the maildirfolder file.
I think maildirfolder is only used for quotas, where the presence of this file indicates that there's a level higher in the folder hierarchy. Somehow this always strikes me as being backwards; a single marker file in the top level would be more efficient than having to have a marker file in each subfolder. It would make sense if you could remove this file to exempt a particular folder from contributing to the quota, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Anyway, I also have lots of folders without that file in it, but (as yet) am not using maildir quotas and am not impacted at all.
-mm- (who thought you had been watching JvV)