Folders containing messages and subfolders

Zachariah Mully zmully at smartbrief.com
Tue Nov 28 11:32:10 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 15:48 +0000, Kevin Clark 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?

No, Cyrus has its own mailbox format that allows mailbox to contain both
subfolders and messages.

Z



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