On 17 Apr 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 00:17, Charlie Brady wrote:
As an academic exercise, is there a reason other than Courier compatibility that subfolders can't be directories nested inside other directories? IOW, if we use / as the hierarchy separator, could we also use it in the filesystem paths of folders. ... (I realise that a reasonable amount of code would need to change to make this possible).
It wouldn't need that much code changes, mbox works that way and most of the code could be taken from there.
There are significant differences from mbox, because a directory can be both a maildir and a container of other maildirs. That makes deletion and rename cases quite different. Or am I imagining these complications?
-- Charlie