> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> 
>> But on our server it seems, that subfolders beginning with a dot aren't 
>> included. Does exim look into sub-subfolders? We have folders like this
>>
>> cur
>> new
>> .Junk/cur
>> .Junk/new
>> .Trash/cur
>> .Trash/new

Philip Hazel wrote:
>> and so on and we have a lot of mailboxes, that are far above their limit.
> 
> Without an experiment, I'm not sure. I note this comment in the code:
> 
>   "Maildirs can only be one level deep. However, this function recurses,
>   so it might cope with deeper nestings."
>   
> and in the document I have the describes Maildir++ and folders, it says
> 
>   "Can folders have subfolders, defined in a recursive fashion? The
>   answer is no. If you want to have a client with a hierarchy of
>   folders, emulate it. Pick a hierarchy separator character, say ":".
>   Then, folder foo/bar is subdirectory .foo:bar."

You guys are talking past each other a bit, because Marten isn't using 
the right terminology. Marten, the directories beginning with . are 
called "Folders" in maildir++. The containing directory is called the 
"Maildir". It is rendered in most IMAP clients as "Inbox". So the 
section that Philip quotes above isn't talking about .Junk or .Trash; 
rather, it's talking about non-existent children of those directories, 
called something like ".Junk/.ThisSubfolderDoesntExist".

- Marc


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