[Dovecot] .INBOX required?

[Johannes Berg]

Hi,

> I've set up the maildir for users in ~/Maildir. Inside that I have other
> folders, .Sent, .Drafts, .Trash, .Junk, .MakeJunk, .MakeGood.

looks good.

> ~/Maildir itself has the cur, new, and tmp folders, but I note that
> there is also an .INBOX folder. Mail to the account does end up in
> ~/Maildir/new and it's readable in the various MUA's (as Inbox).

> I'm
> just not certain why the .INBOX is there, 

dovecot only stores indizes in there (do ls -a). I think recent 1.0
pre-releases don't do that any more (and thus no longer use a .INBOX
folder), but I'm not sure.

> and if I'm supposed to be
> creating the other folders as .INBOX.otherfolder.

Not unless you really want subfolders of the Inbox (which I guess is
possible).

johannes
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