Hauke Fath wrote:
That's definitely wrong.
I'd argue that what I am describing is more accurate than what you are describing.
While this is a dim area of imap, working with subflolders (which are directories on the server side) and mbox mail folders is definitely possible.
The mbox format does not support subfolders _as originally defined_ (it's just a catenation of messages into a single file). The maildir format does (and in fact that feature was one of the reasons it was created, the primary one being NFS-safe behavior).
I am not arguing that it is impossible to use mbox's in such a way as to emulate multiple folders using mbox files (and I believe both pine and Mutt do so). I am simply saying that any software doing that has to do so outside of the mbox format itself (and AFAIK, dovecot doesn't do it at all).
John
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