On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:34:12 +1030 Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. OK, thanks! I have subfolders inside my Mail directory as follows: Mail/inbox Mail/Sent Mail/Drafts Mail/research Mail/research/user1 Mail/research/user2 etc, so my real question is with Mail/research which has both mail messages as well as a sub-folder inside. Of course, I can change it but wanted to also know if that is possible to have both messages and subfolders with mutt (say) and Maildir. Best wishes, Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
