Moving Maildir folders

[Luigi Rosa]

Peter Chiochetti wrote on 17/07/2016 11:01:

> With Maildir and path separator "." one can have incomplete paths: eg.
> bpatterson.INBOX.2011 will say that there is 2011 within INBOX within bpatterson
> -- while it is possible, that both bpatterson and bpatterson.INBOX do not exist!
> Thunderbird will render the missing folders gray in the UI, you probably cannot
> subscribe to those, even from the subscribe dialogue. You should be able to
> create them though.

That is correct.

If you want to create the "path" Somename/Foo/Bar/Baz (as seen by the IMAP 
client), even if only Somename and Baz contains messages, you must have the 
entire "path", that is tour mailbox directory must contain the directories:

.Somename
.Somename.Foo
.Somename.Foo.Bar
.Somename.Foo.Bar.Baz

Of course each of the directories will contain cur, tmp, new and Dovecot files



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