Shortcomings of Maildir++ layout
Maarten Bezemer
mcbdovecot at robuust.nl
Mon Aug 24 13:28:15 UTC 2015
On Sun, 23 Aug 2015, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> astonished to see, what problems come with Maildir++ and how complicated
> dovecot tries to deal with them.
..
[fast fwd to "solution"]
> INBOX -> ~/mail/inbox
> abc -> ~/mail/abc
> abc/def -> ~/mail/abc.dir/def or ~/mail/___abc___/def
This would not work.
For example, how would you handle a folder named "abc.dir"? In your
scheme, that would end up as ~/mail/abc.dir which would still result in a
name clash.
How would you handle abc/def/ghi? Something like
~/mail/abc.dir/def.dir/ghi or? That would not make it very workable
either.
Sounds more like you just introduced a new self-created problem that would
require yet another workaround.. ;-)
But what was not clear from your mail, is what exactly you identified as
"the problems" with standard Maildir++ setup?
--
Maarten
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