From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 27 05:34:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB45916A403 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:34:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71BAC13C45A for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:34:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from coolf89ea26645 (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l2R5Yha0022785; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Message-ID: <002101c77031$71f68c00$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "RW" , References: <20070322064044.GA7157@skytracker.ca> <20070322183822.056b4caa@gumby.homeunix.com> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:33:25 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Subject: Re: help on picking an IMAP server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:34:45 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "RW" To: Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:38 AM Subject: Re: help on picking an IMAP server > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:40:48 -0500 > David Banning wrote: > > > I have been using imap-uw for some time but now I would like to > > have an imap server that can have subfolders. Out with imap-uw.. > > > > I tried dovecot but I was unable to get it to create subfolders, > > although it seems some say you can, may people are having problems > > doing so, and I didn't like the fact that it changes the format of > > the folders from the mbox standard. > > AFAIK imap-uw does support subfolders, to the same extent that UNIX > supports subdirectories. The problem is that you can't have a > mailbox file and a subdirectory of the same name in a directory. So in > foo/bar, bar is a mailbox and foo/ is a directory - so there can't be > a top-level mailbox called foo. > > It's just a matter of organizing your mailboxes to take account of > this. I agree, I have had no problems making folders on the server with uw-imap I respectfully submit that anyone who is ignorant of the importance of UNIX special characters like the / in a directory name would almost certainly boff up any IMAP subfolder creation regardless of what IMAP server software he was using. He's probably coming from a Mac. Hopefully he knows about the other UNIX special characters. Unfortunately, immediately taking an attitude that "It's not my mistake it must be the software" whenever encountering trouble with a computer is not going to get anyone very far. Ted