[imapfilter-devel] problem with parent subfolders

[Lefteris Chatzibarbas]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:34:36AM +0600, Igor Klingen wrote:
> Hi!
> I have faced the following problem.
> We allow there are such rules:
> ...
> action move PARENT/SUB1
> ...
> action move PARENT/SUB2
> ...
> But there are no rules using directly a folder 'PARENT'.
> 
> We allow, also, that the folder 'PARENT' and her(it) subfolders 
> ('.PARENT.SUB1', '.PARENT.SUB2') does not exist.
> Then at execution of above mentioned rules are created subfolders 
> '.PARENT.SUB1' and '.PARENT.SUB2', but a folder
> '.PARENT' It is not created.
> It results in distribution of warning messages in MUA programs (for 
> example OutlookExpress).

I may be wrong, but I don't think that is is required that there must be
mailbox INBOX.foo if there is mailbox INBOX.foo.bar.

Of course, you could just create the mailbox that the MUA is complaining
about, or disable the warnings (if that is configurable).