On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:55:10PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:14:45AM +0100, Chris G wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:12:29PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > > > > > This presupposes the "extended Maildir" layout, I think. My directory > > > layout is that I've just got a directory with subdirs, and at various > > > places in the hierarchy there are normal Maildirs. > > > > > Yes, that's right. I hate the Courier/Dovecot way of not having real > > sub-directories but delimiting with '.', it's OK (but why do it?) for > > an IMAP server as the user doesn't see it but if you want to use the > > hierarchy locally yourself it's a total pain. > > Well, if Mutt were extended (ha!) to grok extended Maildir format, then > it could present the on-disk structure in any way we like. For example, > it could fake directories at the '.' delimiters. > Yes, but if *I* want to do some housekeeping in the mail directories it's a whole lot easier if they're real directories.
-- Chris Green
