David - replying the TCLUG list for archiving...

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:53:59 -0600
David Alitz <david.alitz at earthlink.net> wrote:

> It's been awhile since I switched from mbox to Maildir, but I
> remember  people commenting on how nice it was to put email and sub
> folders in the  same folder.  mbox mailboxes can't have sub folders
> -- that's one of the  advantages of Maildir.  A directory represents
> a sub folder.  Your  Slackware mbox would be in TCLUG/Slackware.mbox
> ; but you can't have  mail in TCLUG because it's a directory, not a
> mbox.  From the client  side you can have folders with mail in them
> or folders with sub folders,  but not both mail and sub folders in
> the same folder.  Your IMAP client  should have a place to specify
> whether your server allows mail and sub  folders to coexist in the
> same folder.

Thanks for the info - I only have a few sub-folders so I think I'll
just create a new top-level folder using an underscore or something as
a seperator:

TCLUG_Slackware.mbox

Josh