dovecot - Oct 2007 - Subscribe to root of Maildir namespace?

Our users currently make use of a single namespace, mbox format:

namespace private {
  separator = /
  prefix = 
  hidden = no 
  inbox = yes
  location =
mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/spool/poptemp/dovecot/%u
}

I'd like to give them access to additional Maildir-format storage area,
so to the above I've added:

namespace private {
  separator = /
  prefix = archive/
  hidden = no
  location =
maildir:/newmail/%-3.3i/%u/:INDEX=/var/spool/poptemp/dovecot/%u.a-thumper-mail
} 

I can set up subfolders of archive/, and they work as expected.  
I can also designate the "root" of archive/ as INBOX and that works
properly.
But "SUBSCRIBE archive" fails.

Is it possible to subscribe to the "root" of this new Maildir
heirarchy as
if it were just another folder?  If not, would this be a useful feature to add?

Thanks,

-- 
Adam Tilghman  |  Systems Support / Academic Computing  |     +1 858 822 0711
 agt at ucsd.edu  |  University of California, San Diego   | fax +1 858 534 7018

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 13:50 -0700, Adam Tilghman wrote:
> Is it possible to subscribe to the "root" of this new Maildir
heirarchy as
> if it were just another folder?  If not, would this be a useful feature to
add?
It was in my TODO for a while, but no-one has yet told me why they
need/want this.

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