Hi, everyone. Files in unix that start with a dot '.' are considered hidden by rule.
Maildir++ uses dots at the start of every folder to seperate mailboxes from ordinary files. This means that the folders themselves are hidden, while special files (cache, indexes) are not. In IMAPdir folders are usually not hidden. We use the idea that folders do not necessarily start with a dot '.', but we allow mailbox names to start with a dot, hence the filename would start with a dot. So if the user wants such mailboxes, then they will be hidden in the file system. Most users would not want mailboxes that start with a dot, though. (Perhaps mailboxes called "...ooops", but it's rare). This behavior work well with local clients, or clients that access the depot through means of opendir->readdir->closedir, and have no idea about IMAPdir or Maildir++, but rather of Maildir, mbox and so on. So IMAPdir works well with these clients, except that special files are not hidden, so they will appear as mailboxes. The question is, should special files be prepended with a dot with IMAPdir? .bincimap-cache .bincimap-subscribed Andy :-) -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly."
