[BlueOnyx:12915] Re: Email question

[jeffrey Pellin - PX2]

What Squirrelmail does is create a disk folder for the top level
where the message folders are filed, and also creates further disk
folders in the .imap folder - all in the user email folder (too many
folders in that sentence). 

Where I have imported IMAP accounts
directly from other servers the folders, etc seem to come in OK. 

It
just seems that for some reason RC doesn't do this - or maybe it does
but is configured not to. 

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On
25.04.2013 13:26, Steven Howes wrote: 

> On 25 Apr 2013, at 12:44, Hans
Draaisma - Netvictory B.V. wrote:
> 
>> I recently got this question
also from one of our customers ;-) Strange that this function is not
implemented in Roundcube indeed. Also you can't forward more than one
mail in one go in Roundcube using the standard install.
> 
> There's a
reason behind it - mbox. The way it's stored on the server is anything
that contains mail is a file. So you have an inbox file, a sent items
file etc. Each of those is a load of messages stored in a single file.
Now if you make a new folder, you're making a new file which can contain
messages. So to create a sub folder you're infact trying to create a
file under a file - obviously in filesystem land this doesn't work.
Squirrelmail / some other mail clients can work around this by calling
the folder something else, I can't remember exactly what it is, but it
adds some sort of suffix/prefix to it (so you 'filing' folder is called
'filing.folder' and the messages in a file called 'filing'.
> 
> Bit
confusing but it does make sense if you understand what's happening
behind the scenes. RoundCube talks via IMAP (in most cases), and I'm not
sure Dovecot supports making stuff like this (but I could be talking
nonsense, feel free to correct me!)
> 
> Steve
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