Re: [Evolution] Maildir and dot hierarchy separator

[Paul Ezvan <paul ezvan fr>]

Le mercredi 28 avril 2010 Ã 08:39 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan a Ãcrit :
> 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.

More precisely Maildir does use standard subfolders but Maildir++ which
is a compatible extension created by the developer of Courrier-imap uses
the a.b.c format. 
> > 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.
Sorry, I misspelled that the question was "Does Evolution support
Maildir++
> However, here's question I neglected to ask earlier: is your account
> actually configured to use Maildir (under
> Preferences-><account>->Receiving Mail->Server Type)?

Yes it is.

Paul