David - replying the TCLUG list for archiving... On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:53:59 -0600 David Alitz <david.alitz at earthlink.net> wrote: > It's been awhile since I switched from mbox to Maildir, but I > remember people commenting on how nice it was to put email and sub > folders in the same folder. mbox mailboxes can't have sub folders > -- that's one of the advantages of Maildir. A directory represents > a sub folder. Your Slackware mbox would be in TCLUG/Slackware.mbox > ; but you can't have mail in TCLUG because it's a directory, not a > mbox. From the client side you can have folders with mail in them > or folders with sub folders, but not both mail and sub folders in > the same folder. Your IMAP client should have a place to specify > whether your server allows mail and sub folders to coexist in the > same folder. Thanks for the info - I only have a few sub-folders so I think I'll just create a new top-level folder using an underscore or something as a seperator: TCLUG_Slackware.mbox Josh