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Re: How to navigate subfolders?



* Larry Alkoff <labradley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2004-06-15 15:41 -0500]:
> I have read that maildirs should have _only_ cur, new and tmp subdirectories
> but they work just fine with other subdirectories and suspect that was just a 
> purist talking.

No, a correct maildir must not contain other subdirectories. Just
consider a maildir a blackbox and do not mess with its internals.

> What do people do with mbox subfolders?  Aren't they typically setup with
> sub and sub-sub folders which you navigate into to read the single file?

Mail/folder1
Mail/folder1/folder21
Mail/folder1/folder21/maildir121
Mail/folder1/folder21/maildir122
Mail/folder1/folder21/maildir123
...
Mail/folder1/maildir11
Mail/folder1/maildir12
Mail/folder1/maildir13
...
Mail/folder2
Mail/folder2/maildir21
Mail/folder2/maildir22
Mail/folder2/maildir23
...

And for mbox just do s/maildir/mbox/g.

Nicolas