Daniel Kasak writes:
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Daniel Kasak writes:
Folders cannot be created directly within other folders. Running maildirmake -f Urgent mail/Maildir/.Drafts will not work. Instead, the period character is designated as a hierarchy separator, run maildirmake -f Drafts.Urgent mail/Maildir instead.
This is for regular folders only. Shared folders is a different beast.
For experimental purposes try replacing the period with a space, and see what happens.
Thanks for the suggestion.
If possible I will try it out on another PC ... it may be some time before I can do this ... I can't upgrade to 3.0.7 on our server to test things because I have a lot of users that rely on shared folders and I can't have them unavailable while I'm experimenting.
However I *still* think that this is a bug. Or at the very least it is a change of behaviour that breaks operation of a major feature.
I have looked through the documentation again and have not found any mention of using maildirmake in a different fashion when creating shared subfolders. Can you point me to somewhere I can read about the correct method for creating a subfolder in a shared folder?
I agree that the documentation could use more help. But I'm just one person, with a day job.
Speaking about filesystem-based shared folders, you do not create shared folders with maildirmake. All you're doing is setting up some links from one maildir tree to another maildir tree. That's what maildirmake does for shared folders.
So you have separate maildirs, presumably different accounts, and maildirmake sets up some links that lets the server find another maildir, and read its folders.
A couple of things in the 'make check' self-test scripts check that shared folders are working correctly. However the self-test scripts only use top-level folders. It's possible that subfolders worked before, but that has never been tested.
A few releases ago the back-end code was rewritten in order to support virtual shared folders, and it's possible that things that made filesystem-based shared subfolders work before, no longer do. It's possible that only a minor fix is needed to get them working again, and I'll try to look at it when I have some time. Then again, I'm just one person.
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