Folders containing messages and subfolders

[Joseph Brennan]

--On Tuesday, November 28, 2006 15:48 +0000 Kevin Clark 
<kevin.clark at csoft.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does Cyrus IMAP support the ability to have folders that may contain both
> messages and subfolders?
>
> The tdlp.org 'MS Outlook to Unix Mailbox Conversion' MINI-HOWTO suggests
> that no Linux IMAP server using the Mailbox format supports this feature.
>
> Does Cyrus IMAP use the Mailbox format and, if so, does it therefore NOT
> support folders containing both messages and subfolders?


By 'Mailbox format' they seem to mean 'mbox' format.  When that format
is used, a 'mail folder' is either a directory containing other folders
or a file containing messages.

Cyrus does not use mbox format, and its 'mail folders' can contain both
messages and other folders.

Joseph Brennan
Lead Email Systems Engineer
Columbia University Information Technology