[Dovecot] IMAP - many folders?

Bertrand LUPART bertrand.lupart at linkeo.com
Thu Nov 25 11:49:34 EET 2004


On Nov 23, 2004, at 13:44, Lars Hansson wrote:
> Gregory Bond wrote:
>> Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
>>> So my question is "how hard would it be to change sources to make 
>>> '/' to
>>> be default delimiter"?
>>>
>> Very.
>> Maildir specifically uses .folder.folder names so that the IMAP 
>> server can find _all_ the folders by reading a single top-level 
>> directory.
>
> This is not how standard Maildir works. The .folder.folder notation
> is an extension introduced by Courier-IMAP.

Courier-IMAP introduced Maildir++ which enhance Maildir with folders 
and quotas.
<url:http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html>

Is it possible to create folders using Maildir?

-- 
Bertrand

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