Re: [Evolution] Maildir and dot hierarchy separator

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 11:34 +0200, Paul Ezvan wrote:
> Le mardi 27 avril 2010 Ã 22:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan a Ãcrit :
> > On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 17:41 +0200, Paul Ezvan wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am trying to use Evolution (2.30.0.1) on a Maildir shared through
> > > CIFS. It works fine except that subfolders are not recognized.
> > >
> > > In the Maildir folder the subfolders are named
> > > as : .subfolder.subsubfolder etc, 
> > > but they are listed like this in Evolution, so it doesn't display the
> > > correct hierarchy.
> >
> > AFAIK the Maildir hierarchy should appear as a real hierarchy of folders
> > when seen from the client machine, i.e. folder, folder/subfolder,
> > folder/subfolder/subsubfolder etc. From your description, it doesn't
> > sound like that's what's happening, so the problem may be the way the
> > CIFS filesystem is being accessed from your machine.
> >
> > > Can Evolution recognize dot hierarchy separator ?
> >
> > Not really relevant. Evo just uses the native filesystem hierarchy. It
> > should never see "separators" in local folder names (including those of
> > remotely mounted folders). Accessing a mail server with the IMAP
> > protocol will show dots as separators, since that's how IMAP works by
> > default, but that's a different matter.
> >
> > poc
>
> Thanks for your answer.

It appears that Maildir does use the a.b.c format as you say. I wasn't
aware of that.

> The Dovecot wiki[1] says that Dovecot uses Maildir++ directory layout,
> which uses the subfolder organization I described below.
>
> So does Dovecot support Maildir++ directory layout ?

That's a question about Dovecot, about which I know nothing. Perhaps you
should ask on a Dovecot list.

However, here's question I neglected to ask earlier: is your account
actually configured to use Maildir (under
Preferences-><account>->Receiving Mail->Server Type)?

poc