Well, the issue is, with mbox, you can decide if the name you create: a) can hold child mailboxes, or messages
or b) messages, and no mailboxes it makes more sense when you think about them as directories and files. WIth mbox a mailbox is a file. So: ~/mailbox/inbox ~/mailbox/foo/ ~mailbox/foo/bar in such setup inbox is a file and of course you can't create ~/mailbox/inbox/children files or directories. but ~/mailbox/foo/ is a directory, so you can create files or directories under it. But the foo itself is a directory, not an mbox file. So with mbox the important thing is to either add nor not add the '/' trailing character to created mailbox names. (And to think that with BikINI they thought this was a good feature of IMAP, not a bad one..) On 15.2.2010, at 18.21, Stewart Dean wrote: > Well, I had the same problem and a colleague pointed me to this cockeyed > black-is-white TB config setting: > Under Account Settings, Server Settings, Server Settings, Advanced, *UN*click > "Server supports folders that contain sub-folders and messages". Then you > can create sub-folders. Doesn't make any sense at all....but then it's > Monday and the Red Queen is everywhere spreading the joys of enhanced > entropy....... > > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Speaking of which, I've tried creating empty imap folders and then creating >> subfolders in them. TB won't allow me to do this with Dovecot mbox accounts. >> Shouldn't I be able to do this? I've tried it with and without >> tb-extra-mailbox-sep enabled. I've read multiple places that tiered mbox >> imap >> folders should be possible, as long as the main folder contains no messages, >> only pointers to other mbox files, or "imap sub folders". >> >> Is this a TB limitation, a dovecot limitation, or my knowledge limitation? >> >> Thanks Timo. >> >> > > -- > ==== Once upon a time, the Internet was a friendly, > neighbors-helping-neighbors small town, and no one locked their doors. Now > it's like an apartment in Bed-Stuy: you need three heavy duty pick-proof > locks, one of those braces that goes from the lock to the floor, and bars on > the windows.... ==== Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Bard College, New York > 12504 sd...@bard.edu voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035 >
