[Dovecot] Binc IMAP "IMAPdir" style layout

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jul 12 16:35:52 EEST 2005


On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 16:55 -0400, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:19:33PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > Maildir++:
> > Maildir/.maildir.subfolder/
> > Maildir/.mbox.subfolder.file
> 
> That would be interesting.  But I was thinking that mbox (and every
> other kind of storage) would have to be encapsulated inside a
> subdirectory so that it could contain any indexes and any other control
> files that might be wanted down the road.  No?

Well, whatever people want when the list/format separation is done :)

The Maildir/.mbox.subfolder.file index could be stored in Maildir/.imap/
directory the way they are now stored for mboxes.
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