Gary Gendel wrote: > > Somehow I would like the clients to recognize multi-file > formats and prune the tree. Hang on - this is nothing to do with the client, but the IMAP server. IMAP as a protocol is independent of mail-storage format, so the server has to interpret whatever format it uses. Look at Courier-IMAP (courier.sourceforge.net) for an IMAP server that understands maildir. Anil