[Dovecot] Support for Kmail maildir format

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 17:35 +0000, Graham Cobb wrote:
> In other words, maildir directories are given the same name as the mail folder 
> (with no leading dot) but sub-folders are contained in disk directories 
> called .<folder-name>.directory.
> 
> I have taken a quick look at the dovecot code and am fairly sure this could be 
> handled by a variant on the existing maildir code (e.g. by changes to 
> maildir_fill_readdir and other routines).  

Sounds pretty weird format, but yes, should be pretty simple to change
Dovecot to handle that. But at least currently I don't want to accept
any such patch to main Dovecot distribution.

I think it should be enough to change maildir_fill_readdir() for
listing, and for opening/deleting/renaming just fix all the code in
maildir-storage.c which contains MAILDIR_FS_SEP_S.

> Has anyone tried this?

I doubt it :)

And does kmail work worse via IMAP, or why aren't you just renaming the
folders to Maildir++ format and make all mail access through Dovecot?
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