Am Montag, 29. November 2004 20:31 schrieb Gordon Messmer:
> Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> > After this is done, I create a subfolder ABC by entering
> >
> > maildirmake -f ABC ~/Maildir.
> >
> > Now how can I tell Courier to deliver mail to the subfolder ABC?
>
> The simplest way to direct all mail to a subfolder would be to create a
> ".courier" file in your home directory with one line:
>
> ./Maildir/.ABC/
Yes, I already thought about this way. But is this safe? As far as I
understand, you should normally not access the subfolder directories
(like .ABC) directly. For example, if you want to add a folder DEF as a
subfolder of ABC, you have to use
maildirmake -f ABC.DEF ~/Maildir
instead of
maildirmake -f DEF ~/Maildir/.ABC,
i.e., you use ~/Maildir as the mail directory, not ABC's directory
~/Maildir.ABC.
What does the Courier MTA or Maildrop do when delivering an e-mail? Does it
just put the mail in a file in the "new" directory? Then your approach would
be safe. Or does it also update certain files located at the top level of
the maildir?*) Then your approach would be errornous since the MTA/Maildrop
would try to update files in ~/Maildir/.ABC while they in fact reside in
~/Maildir.
*) Courier IMAP does so, for example. It creates courierimapsubscribed and
courierimapuiddb.
> [...]
> > The background of this whole thing is that I want to have IMAP folders
> > like Inbox, Sent and Trash which reside on the same hierarchy level.
>
> Then "modify" your IMAP account configuration in Kmail and set the
> "Prefix to folders" setting to "INBOX".
But then I'm not able to access the top level INBOX, right? So I still have
to deliver mail to a subfolder of INBOX.
> [...]
> > If I just let Courier direct mail to ~/Maildir and access ~/Maildir with
> > my e-mail client (KMail) via IMAP, I have a top level folder Inbox and all
> > other folders I create are located below Inbox. This is, of course,
> > nonsensical.
>
> I sometimes think the same thing about the noise made over a such a
> cosmetic feature. ;)
Form matters too, not only function. :-)
Best wishes,
Wolfgang
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