Marc Perkel wrote: > I'm a little confused about maildir. How does it deal with folders? > >
Two ways... (and a half?, with Maildir+) ;-) The 'classical' has them as subdirs under .INBOX, and/or further subdirs under subdirs etc. ad (some finite, but arbitrarily large, OS & fs-sepcific) limit. The Dovecot way doesn't require them to be under .INBOX, and can mix and match, i.e 'see' and present to MUA both legacy qmail/courier/SquirrelMail structure (if in place) plus its own more flexible one. If/as/when you have a variety of clients, epsecially if some are webmail, such as SqurrelMail, then the Dovecot flexibility is *very* handy, as otherwise folders created with one family of MUA/Web interface can end up 'hidden' from the other interface - cause for 'where is my...' service calls. NB: with some of these, they 'hide' anyway, but at least all are visible to a 'proper' MUA, such as Mozilla/SeaMonkey, just to name a readily available cross-platform one. Exim, of course, does whatever it is told, w/r you can intentionally 'hide' some folders from a Webmail interface to reduce the risk a traveler might have. Bill -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
