[Dovecot] Re: Bug#224092: Dovecot IMAP: detection of folders

[Charlie Brady]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 21:55, Charlie Brady wrote:
> > Ah, I've just noticed this in TODO:
> > 
> > ...
> > - remove Maildir/.INBOX/
> > ...
> 
> .INBOX/ contains only Dovecot's indexes. The original reason why I
> created it didn't actually work (atomic "RENAME INBOX xyz" command) but

I see why you might want that. I'd guess this wouldn't work if .INBOX were 
a symlink to '.'.

> I left it.. Current reason is mostly so that I can hide the index files
> in there from polluting the ".imap" namespace.

And that wouldn't work with the symlink either :-)

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Charlie