On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Javier Calahorra Novillo wrote: > Ok, thanks for your help. What we needed was something like this: > > /mailboxes/javi/Maildir/new > cur > tmp > .myfolder > .myfolder/new > .myfolder/cur > .myfolder/tmp > > But seeing that it's not possible with exim directly, I will create > additional folders by using the maildirmake command.
That *is* possible with Exim directly. What is not possible up to Exim 4.61 is to create the .../Maildir/.myfolder/maildirfolder file. However, there has just been some discussion and change on this issue. On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Marc Sherman wrote: > > Why? Is it mandatory to have those directories? This would prevent > > somebody having *only* subfolders and no "main" folder. > > By my read of the maildir++ spec, it is, in fact, mandatory. However, > that's no reason for Exim to require it; be liberal in what you accept > and all that. I think that logging a warning when creating > "maildirfolder" in a dir that matches the regex but isn't within a valid > maildir would be a very good idea, however. I have just committed some new code to the CVS (so that it will be in tonight's snapshot, and in the 4.62 release, which I want to get out next week - because of the other changes, which are bugfixes). The new code implements maildirfolder_create_regex = a regular expression If the pattern matches the directory in which {new,cur,tmp} are to be found or created, then a file called maildirfolder, in the same directory, is created if it does not already exist. I have NOT implemented any test (and therefore no warnings or defers) for {new,cur,tmp} in the superior directory. My reasoning is that, if this were done, the sysadmin would have to pre-create those directories in case the first message was delivered by Exim into a subfolder. If you are going to do pre-creation anyway, you might as well pre-create everything and not bother with maildirfolder_create_regex at all. Philip -- Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/