IMAP Hierarchy

[Travis Fraser]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 07:05, Javier Perez wrote:
> Help!
> 
> My IMAP hierarchy used to look like this:
> 
> INBOX
>    Cron
>    Lists
>      Fedora_list
>      Clamav
> 
> 
> etc.
> 
> I changed mailserver from Courier-Imap to dovecot.
> Also I had a trouble that forced me to reformat my win2k box.
> Nevertheless the same situation happens with Thunderbird and Evolution.
> 
> Now my hierarchy looks like this
> 
> INBOX
> Cron
> Lists
>   Fedora_list
>   Clamav
> 
> Furthermore, when I see the ~HOME/Maildir subdirectory I see a
> .INBOX subdirectory that I did not use to have. I tried erasing it
> with rmdir but it seems to get regenerated somehow.
> 
> How can I go back to the old hierarchy? I tried moving
> the subdirectories below Inbox, but that added a .INBOX suffix
> to the corresponding subdirectories.
I use dovecot to serve up IMAP. My maildir folders look like this:

~/.maildir/.INBOX
~/.maildir/.INBOX.fedora
~/.maildir/.INBOX.razor-users
~/.maildir/.spam

In my mail client, the folders appear like this:

INBOX
   fedora
   razor-users
spam

Travis Fraser