Greetings.

Long, long ago, I set up our shared folders incorrectly. I've now decided to fix things so we can upgrade to the latest courier-imap.

What is the recommended way of setting up lots of shared folders?

Here's what we'd really like to have:

- A series of shared folders with file numbers relating to our clients, eg: 529 530 531

- Shared folders underneath each of these folders, eg: 52900 Some Client Name 52901 Some Other Client Name 52902 Yet Another Client Name

I'm still unclear on whether this ( subfolders of shared folders ) is a supported feature or not. Can I do this? If so, how?

Any help greatly appreciated.

I'm working on a Perl script to upgrade our old mail folders ( there are a LOT ). So people can get some idea of what I'm thinking of doing, here it is:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict;

#use File::Copy;

my $source_folder = "/usr/local/share/maildirs/"; my $dest_folder = "/usr/local/share/new_maildirs/";

opendir MYDIR, $source_folder;

my @directory_contents = readdir MYDIR;

foreach my $item ( sort(@directory_contents) ) {

if ( length($item) > 4 ) {

print "Processing $item\n";

my $new_name = substr( $item, 5, length($item)-5 ); my $new_path = substr( $item, 1, 3 );

print " ... Full Path is: " . $dest_folder . "." . $new_path . "/" . $new_name . "\n\n";

# Create a new folder with the new name mkdir( $dest_folder . "." . $new_path . "/" . $new_name ) || die "Error creating folder " . $dest_folder . $new_path . "/" . $new_name;

# Add slashes to file names $new_name =~ s/ /\\ /g; $item =~ s/ /\\ /g;

# Copy everything from the old directory to the new one my $command = "cp -R $source_folder" . $item . "/* " . $dest_folder . "." . $new_path . "/" . $new_name;

system( $command );

} elsif ( length($item) == 4 ) {

print "Creating shared maildir: $item\n";

my $new_directory = substr( $item, 1, 3 );

#mkdir( $dest_folder . $new_directory ) || die "Error creating directory $new_directory!\n"; my $command = "maildirmake -s write -f $new_directory $dest_folder"; system ( $command );