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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Maildir++ subfolders
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:13:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgbjy8vu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6xrew7f.fsf@fedora.osfans.org>

Kevin Shell <kshell@gmx.com> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Dovecot (the only program I know well that deal with maildir) uses
>> maildir++ by default, but allows you to turn on a setting that uses
>> non-dot-prefixed, potentially nested folder names.
>>
> Courier mail server invented the Maildir++ format,
> all subfolders in Courier mail server start with dot character.
> Dovecot follows the convention.
>
>> But beyond that it looks like the "normal" thing to do is dot-prefixed
>> folder names (and subfolders emulated with multiple dots).
>>
>> Does anyone know why nnmaildir does it the way it does? I suppose it
>> might make sense to give nnmaildir servers the option to choose between
>> "traditional layout" and "filesystem layout".
>>
>
> There are a lot of Dovecot servers using Maildir++ format,
> my feature request. :-)

There's already Bug#21258 open, which essentially covers this same issue
(namely, nnmaildir should be able to handle all the typical maildir
layouts). I've added that to my list of bugs to get to someday -- no one
seems very excited about working on nnmaildir, but I'll get to it eventually...



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-15  4:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-14  5:46 Kevin Shell
2020-09-14  5:55 ` Kevin Shell
2020-09-14 21:27   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-15  0:10     ` Kevin Shell
2020-09-15  4:13       ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-09-15  6:04         ` Kevin Shell
2020-09-15 11:16           ` Eric S Fraga
2020-09-15 15:59             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-16 14:45               ` Eric S Fraga

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