[imp] Subfolder Creation Problem

[Curt LeCaptain]

Well... since changing IMAP servers isn't much an option (things are 
going well with this one, if it ain't broke... in a sense... don't fix 
it.), I appriciate all the input, it's good to know that information for 
the future.  I was thinking that possibly IMP somehow created a database 
driven hierarchy for the folders view, I knew that mail is just ASCII 
text files within a user's home directory, just didn't know whether or 
not IMP could have multi-level folders.  Once again, thanks for the help!

Curt LeCaptain,
Systems Administrator,
Infinity Technology, Inc.

Lord Apollyon wrote:

>>I have found that with the IMAP 2001c I cannot create folders under the
>>Inbox. 
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>INBOX is special, and besides, it's normally located in a system directory
>(/var/spool/mail) where users aren't typically permitted to create
>files/directories.
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>>You can create subfolders off of the root just fine.  Another
>>tidbit of information that I learned late in the game is that a folder
>>can a) hold email or b) hold other folders but not both.  
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>Correct.  This is because a mail folder (containing other mailboxes) maps to
>a filesystem folder, and a mailbox is mapped to a file.  The IMAP4 mailbox
>system presents a quasi-filesystem metaphor to its clients.  Once you
>realise that, all of the operational details "make sense".
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>Granted, there many different "mailbox" schemes from the simple to the
>exotic, and that's where I suspect the biggest differences between the
>various imapd(servers) come into play.
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>>If you want to create a folder to hold other folders you need to 
>>specific folder/ instead of folder when creating it.
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>CORRECT.
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>=Apollyon=
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