Hello list,

For a couple of days now, I've been trying to have the following MUAs create 
subfolders on a Courier IMAP (4.0.6) server, using Maildir storage (of 
course) and IMAP as a protocol:

* KMail 1.9.6,
* Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows),
* Outlook 2003

So far, the only successful attempt was with KMail, but I had to use the quite 
ugly syntax INBOX.firstleveldir.secondleveldir. No way with OutLook or 
Thunderbird.

>From what I could google off the web, I've learned that:

* the original Maildir specification does _not_ allow for nested subfolders,
* Maildir++, however, does, and has been developped specifically for and by 
the Courier IMAP team,
* Courier IMAP claims to implement IMAP as well as it can be, given the state 
of specifications.

On our internal system, which uses wu-imapd (I know) and mbox storage, I have 
no trouble at all creating subfolders, even if a folder cannot contain 
messages. I can even migrate the whole mbox tree to a Maildir tree and it's 
viewed correctly by all MUAs cited above. But creation is a no no, except 
with the KMail hack. For this reason, I cannot envision a move to Courier 
IMAP for our internal system and am considering Dovecot and... mbox storage, 
since Dovecot suffers the exact same problems when using Maildir (except that 
I cannot even create subfolders with KMail this time).

What's more, I don't see any relevant configuration directive in the IMAP 
server configuration file that could help --- at least, not a directive that 
is documented.

Do you have any enlightenment on whether this can work at all? Is it written 
somewhere in the documentation and I have overlooked it (which I certainly do 
not reject as a possibility)? I'm at a complete loss here.

Thanks in advance for your replies, and have fun,
-- 
Francis Galiegue, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
12bis rue de la Pierre Levée, 75011 PARIS
+33143381980, +33683877875

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