On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 01:47 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Jul 24, 2009, at 1:35 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > > On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 01:25 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: > >> On Jul 24, 2009, at 1:18 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > >> > >>> Anyway, it all works spiffingly well, except that I can't see my > >>> inbox > >>> at all. What happens is that attempting to subscribe to Inbox will > >>> create an INBOX folder in the root folder, which is (of course) > >>> empty, > >>> so I see an empty folder. > >>> > >>> mail_location: maildir:/home/data/Profiles/OfflineIMAP/ > >>> root:LAYOUT=fs > >> > >> Append :INBOX=/home/data/Profiles/OfflineIMAP/root > >> > > > > Hey, thanks, worked perfectly. I just rechecked the wiki, and this is > > not mentioned at all, should it be added? The only part of > > MalboxFormat/Maildir dealing with this, under Directory Structure, > > only > > mentions that v1.1 supports subfolders with :LAYOUT=fs. > > Well, this wasn't really intentional.. LAYOUT=fs hasn't really been > used much. I'm beginning to think maybe I should change this to be the > default with it too. >
I guess offlineimap->dovecot (serving IMAP)->mail client IS a bit of a corner case. Thing is, unless I'm mistaken (which wouldn't surprise me) the Maildir++ specification doesn't allow/suggest a separate INBOX folder? In that case, then yes that default would make sense. Thank you for your time, assistance, and this wonderful piece of software.
