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[Matt Snell]

It may just be my own fault, I've done more with Dovecot today than I have
with Courier so that's where I'm getting my information.  But in my initial
playing, I found that both tools  want my mail folders (other than INBOX) to
have a leading dot in the filename, .Gmail for instance (my don't).  I'm
looking around Courier's docs to see if I can get around that, seems I can't
with Dovecot (see below).  

http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir under Directory
Structure states "if your maildir folders exist in eg. ~/Maildir/folder and
~/Maildir/folder/subfolder, Dovecot won't see them unless you rename them to
Maildir++ layout."  

So if I understand correctly, I just didn't follow the
"right" naming convention when I started exploring mutt and mail formats.
I'm still reading, it may turn out that everything I've just written is
completely wrong, this is the fun part :)




On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:41:27PM -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> 
> 
> According to the "Definitions, and goals" section here:
> 
>    http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html
> 
> ...you shouldn't have to care:
> 
>    Maildir++ and Maildir shall be completely interchangeable.
>    A Maildir++ client will be able to use a standard Maildir,
>    automatically "upgrading" it in the process.  A Maildir
>    client will be able to use a Maildir++ just like a regular
>    Maildir.  Of course, a plain Maildir client won't be able
>    to enforce a quota, and won't be able to access messages
>    stored in folders.

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