Where's the Junk

Chris Kottaridis chriskot at quietwind.net
Tue Jul 26 17:25:28 UTC 2011


> Maildir/cur/ <- read messages
> Maildir/new/ <- unread messages

Got it!

That's a help.

Thanks
Chris Kottaridis

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 23:30 +0100, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> On 25 July 2011 23:27, Chris Kottaridis <chriskot at quietwind.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 17:00 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >> There is no Junk mailbox. Junk is a virtual folder (similar to Trash
> >> but
> >> not identical). Junk mail is labelled as such on the IMAP server.
> >> Email
> >> clients that don't handle IMAP labels correctly will just see it as
> >> normal mail, since it's still in the Inbox.
> >
> > OK, I figured it was something like that, a stupid cell phone client.
> >
> > Still be interested in knowing where the INBOX is in a Maildir
> > environment. In dovecot.conf I have:
> >
> > [Maildir]# ls
> > AA-inbox       dovecot.index.cache  dovecot-uidvalidity.4d1ac993  Sent
> > Accounts       dovecot.index.log    Fitness
> > subscriptions
> > Boating        dovecot.index.log.2  Group Admin
> > Sysadmin
> > Computing      dovecot-keywords     Investing                     tmp
> > Contacts       dovecot.mailbox.log  Linux                         Trash
> > cur            dovecot-uidlist      Misc                          Trucks
> > dovecot.index  dovecot-uidvalidity  new                           XSpam
> >
> > The AA-inbox is not it, that's a folder I created. So, it's not really
> > obvious out of this where the INBOX is.
> 
> The Inbox is:
> 
> Maildir/cur/ <- read messages
> Maildir/new/ <- unread messages
> 
> You'll notice that the other folders themselves have cur and new
> folders, representing the same subset of messages in each IMAP folder.
> 



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