dovecot - Jun 2011 - How Dovecot 2 create folders and subfolders ( MBOX format ) with TB ?

Hello

When creating new IMAP folder with thunderbird and Dovecot
configured with the std MBOX format dovecot create a file in
mbox format and so it is not possible to create a subfolder of
this folder.

If you ask to create a NEW subfolder of the form : TOTO/TATA
Dovecot create a directory TOTO containing a mbox file TATA.

Very useful :-)

I suppose the "/" separator is parsed by dovecot then it creates
a directory containing the mbox file. Am I right ?

On 6/7/2011 1:58 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote:
> Hello
>
> When creating new IMAP folder with thunderbird and Dovecot
> configured with the std MBOX format dovecot create a file in
> mbox format and so it is not possible to create a subfolder of
> this folder.
>
> If you ask to create a NEW subfolder of the form : TOTO/TATA
> Dovecot create a directory TOTO containing a mbox file TATA.
>
> Very useful :-)
>
> I suppose the "/" separator is parsed by dovecot then it creates
> a directory containing the mbox file. Am I right ?
With MBOX, that is correct.
You can also just throw a separator at the end, like TOTO/ and it will 
create a folder that accepts subfolders.  Thunderbird is a little buggy 
in this area though with how it decides to treat them.
I submitted a patch last month to help with a bug Timo had found, but of 
course they haven't done anything about it.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301714#c15