On 23 Aug 2015, at 12:25, Hadmut Danisch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to deal with the problem, that under regular mbox format a > path can lead to either a file or a directory, but not both, while under > IMAP, a path is usually both, a message folder containing subfolders. > > I found dovecot's approach to this problem, the Maildir++ layout > described under http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MboxChildFolders , and was > astonished to see, what problems come with Maildir++ and how complicated > dovecot tries to deal with them. > > > I wonder why dovecot is not using a much easier approach and just uses a > configurable prefix and/or suffix like .dir or ____ for directory names, > e.g.
It can do it. See: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MboxChildFolders
