On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 10:24 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > It appears that Maildir does use the a.b.c format as you say. I wasn't
> > > aware of that.
> > More precisely Maildir does use standard subfolders but Maildir++ which
> > is a compatible extension created by the developer of Courrier-imap uses
> > the a.b.c format. 
> 
> Yeah.  "compatible extension"... famous last words.  Isn't Courier an
> IMAP server?  Why not use IMAP?
> 
> <rant>This idea of dinking around under a server is just bad, period.  A
> server should *serve* access to its content and be the sole master of
> that content;  one of the reasons I love Cyrus IMAPd, it doesn't make
> any pretense about being an IMAP/file server.  It is an IMAP server -
> full stop.  Users, including me the admin, have no business thrashing
> about in the mail store.  There is no point - mail can be accessed via
> IMAP and administration operations can be performed via tools.</rant>

Agreed (vehemently :-)

poc

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