On Sun, 2020-10-18 at 09:03 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> do you know if Maildir folders can have a mixture of files and sub-
> folders. So, let me explain: some of my sylpheed mh folders have
> messages in them as well as sub-folders. So, my question is: is it
> acceptable to have a Maildir folder that has cur/ new/ and tmp/ in
> addition to subfolder inside which is the same format?
Yes and no... I can't answer to the technique of doing what's
permissible, and that's going to depend on the software involved. In
*my* case, I can nest folders, but a folder can contain only mail or
another folder, not both together.
But I do have sub-folders, and I use maildir. However, it's my mail
client handles *how* it does sub-folders, and (in my case) they're done
with a bit of fakery. There aren't folders inside folders stored on my
filesystem. They're all in directly in my ~/.mail directory. They're
named in a way that the mail client can show them in nested folders.
e.g. While my mail client shows a tree like this:
announcements/
/bugzilla
/CentOS
/Fedora
/Google
/Red Hat
lists/
/Fedora
/Musescore
/tech
logs/
/boot
/cron
/logwatch
/printer
With those lists of five, three, and four, folders inside the ones
above them. On-disc, they're all in one place, like this:
~/.mail/announcements.bugzilla
~/.mail/announcements.CentOS
~/.mail/announcements.Fedora
~/.mail/announcements.Google
~/.mail/announcements.Red Hat
~/.mail/lists.Fedora
~/.mail/lists.Musescore
~/.mail/lists.tech
~/.mail/logs.boot
~/.mail/logs.cron
~/.mail/logs.logwatch
~/.mail/logs.printer
It allows you to structure your mail client in a way that's useful to
you, without you having to care about how it's achieved.
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