[Dovecot] IMAP subfolders and MBOX format

[Scott Silva]

on 5-14-2009 5:11 AM Frank Bonnet spake the following:
> Hello folks
> 
> I have a problem related to the mbox format I think
> 
> First we use MBOX format with Dovecot 1.14
> 
> A user's here need to create some subfolders in his Imap space.
> 
> Due to the use of MBOX format this is impossible from thunderbird
> as you cannot creat a directory in a file :-)
> 
> So to help him I created manually on the mail server some directories
> into his imap space,
> 
> Doing so we are able to see the folder and subfolders but it is not
> possible to move some other folders into the subfolder via the
> thunderdird client.
> 
> Anyone to help me a bit ?
> 
> 
> Note : on another machine which use the Maildir format I can do
> whatever I want without problem.
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> 
> 
> 
You can create subfolders on a mbox system, but you can't have folders that
contain messages and folders. When you create folders you end them with a /
like "new folder/".



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