On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 08:14:31PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
E.g. I /home/chris/Mail I have the following (maildir) folders:-
. FcompParts family garden internet kyle-mutt money riding software .. FnewScientist france hardware invites leisure mud selling telecoms .in Fos2 freecycle holidays isbd lets pending sentmail vehicles Fcds boating friends houseHome jobs mairix personal shopping workHowever if I execute list_dirs() in /home/chris/Mail it just gives me [.in] and that's the lot!
That's working exactly as specified - Maildir subfolder directory names must begin with a "."
I don't know why, but that's how it is and it's confused me several times before. It's not explained in http://www.courier-mta.org/maildir.html
Anyone know why it's like this?
I don't think there is *any* requirement for maildir sub-folders to start with '.', it's a Courier thing, not a maildir thing. I run mutt with maildirs and nearly all my folders and sub-folders *don't* start with '.', the .in is just a special case which I have because I don't want it to be visible in mutt.