On Monday September 6 at 03:06pm Victor Munoz <vmunoz@macul.ciencias.uchile.cl> wrote: > > How did you create those folders? When I create IMAP folders in > > Sylpheed-Claws or Ilohamail, they are named .thisisafolder (note the > > leading period) and contain cur/new/tmp folders. It sounds like you > > manually created those folders, which would be a Bad Idea (tm) > > Well, that's what I did. I've been happily using mutt to read mail > locally, but now I'd like to set up some webmail service. It would be > great if I could somehow preserve the directory structure. Generally, its a bad idea to go mucking about like that. I'm surprised mutt was able to find the folders you made, but whatever. The folder structure does not allow for sub-folders, if you think about it. How is the client supposed to know if its another mail folder or the cur/new/tmp structure? With periods, if you put a period in the name, that indicates a new level. Therefore, folder ~/Maildir/.mailing lists.debian.user shows up in the client as: Inbox -mailing lists --debian ---user Yes, this limits you to folders without periods (or they'll just be subfolders), but it doesn't bother me. The people (or person, I think Maildir was the work of qmail's author Dan Bernstein, someone correct me if I'm wrong) put a lot of thought into how it should work, and then created the tools and libraries to deal with it correctly. I'd rather let them do their job. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: Onelinedrawing - Smile : Punk Vs. Emo (Disc 2 - Emo) Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 30th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3170 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/
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