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Re: Yet another maildir question
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Jesse F. Hughes |
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Re: Yet another maildir question |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:17:33 +0200 |
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"Richard Watson" <richard@openia.com> writes:
> jesse@phiwumbda.org (Jesse F. Hughes) writes:
>
>> Evidently ~/Maildir is INBOX, and each subdirectory .dirname
>> corresponds to a group called INBOX.dirname. This leads to fairly
>> unwieldy group names: nnimap+PW:INBOX.blah. But I guess I can live
>> with this. But *must* every group start with INBOX?
>
> I think that's a courier thing. All folders have to live inside the
> INBOX.
Oh. Well, I guess that's okay.
>> At least it seems to make sense to me to
>> have INBOX.tue.research in INBOX/.tue/.research. Am I wrong that this
>> is sensible? Is a flat directory better? If not, how do I get gnus
>> to move things the way I want?
>
> Can't you imagine that a . is a / ? ;-) Surely a flat format is as
> good as anything for humanly-manageable numbers of groups?
>
> I'm sure you can get gnus to move things around for you, but then
> you'll be confusing courier, which seems to defeat the object.
Alright. I guess I can live with it.
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