[imp] UW-IMAP Folders

[Gary W. Smith]

Sorry, the answer you are looking for is no.  As per the uw-imap design
a folder name can either be a mail store or a contain for other
folders/mail stores but not both.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: imp-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:imp-bounces at lists.horde.org]
On
> Behalf Of Earnie Boyd
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:21 AM
> To: Chuck Hagenbuch
> Cc: imp at lists.horde.org
> Subject: Re: [imp] UW-IMAP Folders
> 
> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
> 
> > Quoting Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net>:
> >
> >> I have a Linux server running UW-IMAP.  When creating folders in
IMP it
> >> is impossible to create a subfolder under the basename folder since
the
> >> basename folder is a file and not a directory.  I'm wondering if
anyone
> >> has a backend or method for IMP so that when a folder is created a
file
> >> container is created but hidden from view?
> >
> > You can use a different IMAP server (courier and cyrus both support
> > subfolders of folders that contain mail), or you can create foo/bar
in
> > one shot.
> >
> 
> I've used Courier before; but that wasn't my question.  I'm not
looking
> for different IMAP daemons that would do what I want; I'm looking for
a
> method or backend process that would allow me to do it with UW-IMAP.
> 
> Quoting "Gary W. Smith" <gary at primeexalia.com>:
> 
> > Earnie,
> >
> > To throw another reason to switch into it...  We used uw-imap for
some
> > years and it worked great until our users started collecting
hundreds of
> > mb's of email per folder then we saw noticeable performance
degradation.
> > We switch to Cyrus and it seems to be working great (in comparison
to
> > the few uw-imap servers we still have).
> 
> Well, thanks for the comments.  I am the only user.  I wish to have
> UW-IMAP remain as the service at the moment.
> 
> Earnie Boyd
> 
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