Well, the issue is, with mbox, you can decide if the name you create:
a) can hold child mailboxes, or messages
or
b) messages, and no mailboxes
it makes more sense when you think about them as directories and files. WIth mbox a mailbox is a file. So:
~/mailbox/inbox ~/mailbox/foo/ ~mailbox/foo/bar
in such setup inbox is a file and of course you can't create ~/mailbox/inbox/children files or directories. but ~/mailbox/foo/ is a directory, so you can create files or directories under it. But the foo itself is a directory, not an mbox file.
So with mbox the important thing is to either add nor not add the '/' trailing character to created mailbox names.
(And to think that with BikINI they thought this was a good feature of IMAP, not a bad one..)
On 15.2.2010, at 18.21, Stewart Dean wrote:
Well, I had the same problem and a colleague pointed me to this cockeyed black-is-white TB config setting: Under Account Settings, Server Settings, Server Settings, Advanced, *UN*click "Server supports folders that contain sub-folders and messages". Then you can create sub-folders. Doesn't make any sense at all....but then it's Monday and the Red Queen is everywhere spreading the joys of enhanced entropy.......
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Speaking of which, I've tried creating empty imap folders and then creating subfolders in them. TB won't allow me to do this with Dovecot mbox accounts. Shouldn't I be able to do this? I've tried it with and without tb-extra-mailbox-sep enabled. I've read multiple places that tiered mbox imap folders should be possible, as long as the main folder contains no messages, only pointers to other mbox files, or "imap sub folders".
Is this a TB limitation, a dovecot limitation, or my knowledge limitation?
Thanks Timo.
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