On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 05:53:49PM +0900, alan premselaar wrote:
the '.' character is used as an IMAP delimiter used by dovecot (and some other IMAP servers, although it's been awhile since i've used others so I don't remember which off the top of my head)
so, if you want sub folders to show up in your IMAP client, you'll need a heirarchy similar to (assuming you're using Maildir format, each of these directories will have 3 additional sub-directories called cur/ new/ and tmp/):
~/Maildir/.INBOX/ ~/Maildir/.some_folder/ ~/Maildir/.some_folder.sub_folder/
No. I want ~/Mail/Maildir/ as a folder for new, incomming mail, and "/" as a delimiter. So my question is "how hard would it be to change sources to make '/' to be default delimiter"?
this will show up as:
INBOX some_folder \_sub_folder
in your IMAP client (i'm not familiar with mutt or its IMAP capabilities, but for example thunderbird will work this way)
Yes, mutt as IMAP client will work with this as well (or any other delimiter - it's configurable iirc).
But if I use this approach I'll have 20+ entries in ~/Mail/ directory and that would inconvinient to use with mutt as a local mail (not IMAP) reader (with 'c<tab>').
That's why I want my mail nicely sorted in subdirs, not everything in one directory.
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