so, just to let everyone know..

cd mail/inbox && ln -s ../blah .blah && touch .blah/maildirfolder

worked great..

-Alex

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Brian Candler writes:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 06:59:38AM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>>
>>> Alex writes:
>>>
>>> >So do you think a symlink from ~/mail/blah to ~/mail/inbox/.blah will
>>> >solve it or are there some other things i have to set up?
>>>
>>> No. You should simply use your IMAP clients to create folders, then
>>> adjust your mail delivery scripts to deliver mail to
>>> MAILDIR/.foldername.
>>
>> I'd say it's safest to do it as Sam advises: i.e.
>> * create folders from IMAP client
>> * mv ~/mail/blah/cur/* ~/Maildir/.blah/cur/
>>
>> If you wanted to move the whole folder in one go, you'd need to beware of
>> the rules for Maildir++ with folders inside Maildirs (in particular the
>> presence of the 'maildirfolder' file). See:
>> http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html
>
> You should update your bookmarks. I do not maintain the archived pages on
> inter7.com any more.
>
> All the current stuff is on http://www.courier-mta.org, i.e.:
>
> http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/README.maildirquota.html
>
> The stuff hasn't really changed, but let's keep all the links current.
>
>
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