[Dovecot] IMAP Subdirectories

[John Peacock]

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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