Apple Mail behaviour: can not create sub-folders
One of my Apple Mail users recently complained his mail reader couldn't create sub-folders -- he could only create top-level folders. Playing around with this, I discovered that I could create folders ( as opposed to mialboxes) *if* I specified mailbox name with a trailing slash.
Has anyone come across this? Is this related to
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_location/mbox/mboxchildfolders/?
Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>
On 01.03.22 02:18, Joseph Tam wrote:
One of my Apple Mail users recently complained his mail reader couldn't create sub-folders -- he could only create top-level folders. Playing around with this, I discovered that I could create folders ( as opposed to mialboxes) *if* I specified mailbox name with a trailing slash.
Has anyone come across this? Is this related to
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_location/mbox/mboxchildfol...
?
Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>
Which path separators did were used?
On Tue, 1 Mar 2022, Jan Bramkamp wrote:
One of my Apple Mail users recently complained his mail reader couldn't create sub-folders -- he could only create top-level folders. Playing around with this, I discovered that I could create folders ( as opposed to mialboxes) *if* I specified mailbox name with a trailing slash.
Has anyone come across this? Is this related to
https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/mail_location/mbox/mboxchildfolders/Which path separators did were used?
'/' (maps directly to filesystem pathname).
The user stated that it behaved "normally" before where folders and mailboxes were handled without fuss. Thunderbird also has a setting which hints the client as to whether whether Maildir or MBOX was being used by forbidding creating mailboxes that also contained other mailboxes.
I guess I'm asking whether the Apple mail client now has a similar control or it's up to the user to figure it all out.
Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>
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