[plug] Maildir format

[Adam Ashley]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 09:05 +0800, Timothy White wrote:
> I am a bit confused about the format of a Maildir. I know that because 
> it is being accessed of IMAP it has extra folders but as to the layout I 
> am a bit confused.
> My understanding of Maildir's was the following format with each mailbox 
> a directory
> Maildir -->
>           |
>           |--> Inbox
>           |--> Sent
>           |--> MailingLists -->
>                                |--> PLUG
>                                |--> OT
>                                |--> OO.org
> etc...
> So that if I wanted to create a sub directory I could just create a new 
> folder in the parent directory. So that would make PLUG = 
> Maildir/MailingLists/PLUG.
> Instead it is Maildir/.MailingLists.PLUG
> This doesn't make sense to me. Especially as when I used Squirrelmail it 
> displays as MailingLists.PLUG but when I was using mbox It would display 
> as PLUG as a sub folder of MailingLists.
> Am I doing something wrong? Or is it the IMAP that is creating them like 
> this. If so I should be able to run `maildirmake.dovecot 
> ~/Maildir/.MailingLists/.PLUG` and it should work how I want it?
> Thanks
> Tim
> 

That is how the maildir format works. most clients recognise . as a
directory seperator as well as /. check the SM config files for an
option to change the directory seperator.

Adam