[Dovecot] 1.0.alpha1: Namespaces

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de
Tue Sep 6 14:12:50 EEST 2005


On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Wolfram Schlich wrote:

> Every new (sub)folder I create is stored as
>
> 	~/.maildir/.Folder
> 	resp.
> 	~/.maildir/.Folder.Subfolder
>
> in the filesystem.
>
> Are namespaces the right way?
> Is it possible at all?

This is how MailDir works actually, the separator is for the client to 
know how to separate the mail subfolders and does not apply to mail 
storage.

Meaning: When a client talks to the IMAP server, it must use:

SELECT "Folder/Subfolder"

But on disk you always get .Folder.Subfolder, because MailDir is designed 
like that.

Bye,

-- 
Steffen Kaiser


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