Thank you, by using "LAYOUT=maildir++" on 1.1rc3 it worked. I still would suggest the .sdb directory concept. It would evade the limitation of filenames length which I think it is 255, unless it has changed in recent years.
Richard Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 14:25 -0400, Richard Lefebvre wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to have dovecot configured to use mbox format and yet >> have folders that contains sub-folders and messages? I'm thinking of >> a simple setup where any files directory with extension .sbd are >> presented to the IMAP client without the extension. So if you have a >> mbox file named BOX01 and a directory name BOX01.sdb would show has one >> on the client side (note: that is the way Thunderbird keeps it's mail >> locally). >> >> I know that the Maildir format does the sub-folders+messages, but I'm >> not really interested by the one file per email. > > With v1.1 you could have maildir++ directory layout with mboxes > (mbox:~/mail:LAYOUT=maildir): > > ~/mail/.mbox1 > ~/mail/.mbox1.submbox >
