On Jul 17, 2016, at 4:56 PM, Mark Foley mfoley@ohprs.org wrote:
.bpatterson.Foo.Bar/ .bpatterson.Foo.raB/ etc
I never did create
.bpatterson/ .bpatterson.Foo/
Neither of these are needed. The path delimiter for IMAP is a . And you do not put maildir folders under maildir folders.
INBOX is the top level maildir folder, and is not normally named INBOX on the filesystem.
Here’s the folder structure for one of my accounts:
drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 May 22 2015 ,Junk drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jul 18 02:14 .Archive drwxr-xr-x 5 1004 1004 512 Jun 26 13:25 .Archive.OLD drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jul 18 02:15 .Drafts drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jul 18 01:40 .Junk drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jul 18 02:12 .Sent drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jun 9 20:05 .Trash drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jul 17 15:15 .bbedit drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jul 18 01:47 .bind drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jul 18 02:14 .dovecot drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jul 18 02:14 .httpd drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jul 18 01:47 .macosx drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jul 18 01:47 .postfix drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jul 18 01:40 .spamassassin drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jul 18 01:40 .swift drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jul 18 02:12 .tidbits drwx------ 5 1004 1004 512 Jul 19 2015 .tidbits.2014.archive drwxr-xr-x 2 1004 1004 512 Jun 15 15:00 cur -rw------- 1 1004 1004 44 Aug 19 2013 dovecot-keywords -rw------- 1 1004 1004 365 Jun 17 21:12 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 1004 1004 8 Jul 18 01:45 dovecot-uidvalidity -rw------- 1 1004 1004 520 Jun 7 09:33 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 1004 1004 9824 Jul 17 14:18 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 1004 1004 28008 Jul 3 09:45 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 1004 1004 3120 Jul 10 00:44 dovecot.mailbox.log -rw------- 1 1004 1004 4200 May 29 07:50 dovecot.mailbox.log.2 drwxr-xr-x 2 1004 1004 512 Jun 13 07:36 new -rw------- 1 1004 1004 43 Jul 10 00:43 subscriptions drwxr-xr-x 2 1004 1004 512 Jul 11 19:01 tmp
Notice that .tidbits.2104.archive is three levels down, and the middle level doesn’t exist on its own.
The folders new, tmp, and cur are the Maildir folders for INBOX.
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