On Monday 29 May 2006 11:25, Bart Braem took the opportunity to write:

We have installed a brand new Dovecot because it seems very interesting as an IMAP server. We created a mailbox for a test user and we succeeded in copying some mails into it. However making subfolders does not work. The only folders we can create are in the root, next to the INBOX that is. We thought Maildir does support subfolders (as opposed to mbox), are we wrong here? Our Dovecot version is 1.0.b8_1.

It *should* work out of the box. What, exactly, happens when you try to create subfolders? What IMAP client do you use? What changes, if any, have you made to the default configuration?

-- Magnus Holmgren holmgren@lysator.liu.se (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks)

I think most imap servers place all folders under inside the Maildir folder on the same level as cur, tmp and new. Nested folders are then implemented using dots so you might have: .Grandparent .Grandparent.parent .grandparent.parent.child

This would give you a three deep nested folder as viewed through imap but the files structure would remain flat.

n.b. might be wrong - have not been using dovecot long.

Pat

-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Bart Braem Sent: 29 May 2006 10:26 To: dovecot@dovecot.org Subject: [Dovecot] Subfolder in Maildir

Hello,

We have installed a brand new Dovecot because it seems very interesting as an IMAP server. We created a mailbox for a test user and we succeeded in copying some mails into it. However making subfolders does not work. The only folders we can create are in the root, next to the INBOX that is. We thought Maildir does support subfolders (as opposed to mbox), are we wrong here? Our Dovecot version is 1.0.b8_1.

Bart

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