On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 12:37 +0100, William Blunn wrote: > Whilst documenting LAYOUT=maildir++ under dbox, that got me thinking: > > Can we specify :LAYOUT=maildir++ with mbox?
Yes, ever since LAYOUT was added. > If I have it right, this should then remove the problem of not being > able to have messages and mail subfolders in the same mail folder. Yes. Also it might be possible to use DIRNAME with LAYOUT=fs to solve that problem, but I'm less sure about that. I anyway doubt most mbox users want to switch to a whole new layout. > So for example if we had mail location specified as: > > mail_location = mbox:~/mail:LAYOUT=maildir++ > > we would have files: > > ~/mail/inbox - file storing messages in INBOX > ~/mail/.foo - file storing messages in mail folder "foo" > ~/mail/.foo.bar - file storing messages in mail folder "foo/bar" > > and I think all of Dovecot's indexes would go under ~/mail/.imap I think it'll give an error (by trying to write to ~/mail/.foo/.imap/dovecot.index) unless you also specify :INDEX= directory separately.
