Mail has always been the bane of my sys-admin life. I've been looking long and hard for a small, C-based, simple IMAP server that worked well with maildirs *and* mboxes and nothing else. wu-imap is so bloated and rife with decrepit, cross-platform, insecure code that I avoid it for any new servers. Courier-imap only supports maildirs but has some wierdnesses that I've come to live with. dovecot promises to be exactly what I'm looking for with just the right footprint and feature-set.

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I was surprised when I tried creating subfolders of mbox's. woohoo! The only problem is that dovecot manages to rename the parent, appending a '.'. So when we have:

folder

we now have:

folder. folder.subfolder

Evolution freaks out and thinks it can't store folders in 'folder.' and ends up with two subfolders: null and subfolder, which can contain messages. If I rename the parent folder without the trailing '.', everything works as expected. I'm trying to test some other imap clients now.

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