There's the answer to my question! So IMAP is only doing the creating because of the scheme passed down from the IMAP client. And since I don't use Squirrel or SQWebmail it isn't creating the dot files everyone speaks of. Thank you!
Wil Hatfield > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charles > Sprickman > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:36 PM > To: Ajai Khattri > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [vchkpw] IMAP dot folders > > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Ajai Khattri wrote: > > > I found that the folder names corresponded exactly with the folder names > > in SquirrelMail. Since SquirrelMail uses IMAP, Im assuming it told > > courier-imap to make these folders. > > And the fun part starts when you throw multiple mail clients into the mix. > Pine likes making "sent-mail", sqwebmail I think makes something else, > Mail.app has yet another scheme... It's a shame the IMAP spec doesn't > include a standard naming scheme for standard mailboxes. > > C > > > -- > > Aj. > > Systems Administrator / Developer > > > > > > >