[SLUG] maildir + courier imapd = brain damage

From: Dylan William Hardison (dylanwh@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jun 09 2004 - 00:37:13 EDT


Is it me, or does courier storing folders as $MAILDIR/.Foo.Bar.Baz
seem brain damaged compared to $MAILDIR/Foo/Bar/Baz?

I've read the maildir standard, and it seems to allow $MAILDIR/Foo/Bar/Baz,
so why does courier use a flat directory structure?
Is it really that much faster to index?

Anyway, the result is if I want mutt and courier
to access my ~/.Maildir dir, I have to use courier's insane .Foo.Bar.Baz
system. In the end, mutt one, and I no longer use courier as I prefer
$MAILDIR/Foo/Bar/Baz...

Anyway, can someone please tell the method to this madness?

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Thus spake the master programmer:
        "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless."
              -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
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