My BSD wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:48:06 +0800
> W B Hacker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  ... 
>> Good explanation. The 'dot', BTW, while in both the Maildir & Maildir+ 
>> usage, is 
>> not an absolute requirement for Dovecot, and one of the things we like about 
>> that IMAPD.   ...
>  ...
> 
> Thanks Bill!
> 
> Using Dovecot since 99.x and never knew that.
> 
> Slowly changing hierarchies to "FS" by hand  -- It'd be
> nice if there was a script to automate it.
> 
> Regards.
> 

Many useful things come of that 'feature' beside making hard/soft links and 
scripted 'stuff' more manageable:

- making it easier to not trash a 'Prayer' Webmail preferences file (stored in 
IMAP structure).

- insuring that the user's 'Sent' and 'Suspects' folders (created with 'unseen' 
routers) IS visible.

Our mailstore is defined per-user in several PostgreSQL fields, from RAID array 
mountpoint selection on down to whether mbox, maildir, or just a placeholder, 
(used for dsearch AWL) - each concatenated as required in router/transport set 
SELECT calls.

CAVEAT: *Very* flexible, but not very efficient.

Dovecot is also very friendly to SQL in that regard.

Bill


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