On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 04:09:25PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote:
> Michael Tatge wrote:
> > Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) muttered:
>
> > > I found these problems for which I know *no* 100% workaround:
> >
> > > - I'm unable to browse Maildirs reliably. They can contain both messages
> > > and subfolders but when I enter a maildir the message index is
> > > displayed automatically
>
> > This is perfect behaviour. A Maildir should not have subdirs other then
> > cur, new, tmp.
> > If you need subdirs, use normal directories.
Why? This is how courier-imap sets things and it causes no problems
except the subfolders arent easily accessible from mutt.
> [...]
> > > (should be handled the same way IMAP browsing is described in
> > > documentation).
> > > - subfolders in Maildirs arent displayed in browser - start with dot
> > > (set mask to show .subforder and ignore new|cur|tmp) - suggest
> > > maildir_mask
> >
> > IMAP folder may have subdirs. Maildirs not.
Is there anything that fobids it? Mine have and some of them were created
automagically.
> perhaps the OP is confusing courier's 'maildir++' documentation with
> Maildir itself. courier imapd does actually allow subfolders, and this
> is the default. folders start with a '.' by default.
??? procmail happily sorts into subdirs of ~/Mail which is a maildir. As
I understand Maildirs they contain mail messages in cur, new and tmp.
Other directories arent affected in any way and my be used for more maildirs.
>
> you can put:
> set mask="^\\."
> to show only folders starting with a leading dot.
>
> personally, i've found that the better way to use both courier IMAP and
> local Maildir folders is either to put your actual mail folders in
> ~/Mail/ and then create symlinks from ~/Mail/foo/ to ~/Maildir/.foo/, or
> to do the opposite and link ~/Maildir/.foo/ to ~/Mail/foo/.
Thank you for your suggestions, I have tried both already. As I find
myself typing the folder names directly more often the link solution
seems superior to mask.
>
> courier's strange way of doing things makes sense when the only access
> to the system is via IMAP, but it's a pain to use with local folders.
Yes, it is weird. But if it didnt use the dots it wouldnt be that bad.
--
Michal Suchanek
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
