Question about nested folders..

2005-03-17 Thread Joseph Silverman
Can uw Imap (c-client) create nested folders? How do I do this? I read, somewhere, that this required using the .mbx format for mailboxes. So I recompiled imapd changing the default format to mbx. After some unpleasant experiences trying to get tmail to work with sendmail (can't figure out

followup on email about nested directories..

2005-03-17 Thread Joseph Silverman
What I need to do, and am hoping that uw imap will do, is create subfolders within folders. So, for example, I could create folder X that contains messages and then put folder Y into it. I realize that both mbox and mbx formats are flat files and thus it seems UNLIKELY that this can be done.

Re: followup on email about nested directories..

2005-03-17 Thread Mark Crispin
In order to create mailboxes within a mailbox, you need to use a mailbox format which supports this dual-use. mbx format is not such a format; nor is traditional UNIX mailbox format. The dual-use mailbox formats supported in the distribution version of c-client are mh, mx, and news.

Re: followup on email about nested directories..

2005-03-17 Thread Lars Hallberg
Mark Crispin wrote: In order to create mailboxes within a mailbox, you need to use a mailbox format which supports this dual-use. mbx format is not such a format; nor is traditional UNIX mailbox format. That is doable. Just deside on a special mailbox name to be the folders 'own' mailbox, let

Re: followup on email about nested directories..

2005-03-17 Thread Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Mark Crispin wrote: In order to create mailboxes within a mailbox, you need to use a mailbox format which supports this dual-use. mbx format is not such a format; nor is traditional UNIX mailbox format. The dual-use mailbox formats supported in the distribution version of