On 15Oct2020 23:02, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
On 10/15/20 10:15 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>It seems to work, but can not handle a second level of subfolders: brings them all out
as individual folders at the first level, so Ihave to fix that. Also, I don't like the
new folder names, seem too unnecessary for me. (I was expecting to the old MH folder names
inside my Maildir.) Also, the mails get stored as something like:
1602799622.116065_21187.hostname:2, not sure if this is the recommended way that files are
stored in the Maildir format. I was expecting to have something that I could have control
over.
>
>I have to look into this some more. I am not sure if this is the standard way to store
Maildir format messages.
Maildir has all the folders at the top level with dots to indicate
subfolders. And that is also the standard filename format.
This isn't strictly true. Some IMAP _servers_ require you to use such a
scheme, but if you're not presenting the folders via IMAP there's no
need for such a system.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)cskk.id.au>