Shortcomings of Maildir++ layout

[Maarten Bezemer]

On Sun, 23 Aug 2015, Hadmut Danisch wrote:

> astonished to see, what problems come with Maildir++ and how complicated
> dovecot tries to deal with them.
..
[fast fwd to "solution"]

> INBOX   ->   ~/mail/inbox
> abc     ->    ~/mail/abc
> abc/def ->   ~/mail/abc.dir/def    or ~/mail/___abc___/def

This would not work.
For example, how would you handle a folder named "abc.dir"? In your 
scheme, that would end up as ~/mail/abc.dir which would still result in a 
name clash.
How would you handle abc/def/ghi? Something like 
~/mail/abc.dir/def.dir/ghi or? That would not make it very workable 
either.

Sounds more like you just introduced a new self-created problem that would 
require yet another workaround.. ;-)

But what was not clear from your mail, is what exactly you identified as 
"the problems" with standard Maildir++ setup?

-- 
Maarten