On 2008-03-06, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 16:25 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
then standard Maildir++ utilities are likely to get confused because a folder known to the client as "a.b" will appear in the filesystem with a name of 'a\2eb'.
That's a pain.
With v1.1 you could use a "normal" directory layout for maildirs as well with:
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
That will be wonderful!
I never really understood why people decided to try to emulate a filesystem using special characters in filenames. I don't know if that originated in the maildir camp or the IMAP server camp, but it's always been a real hassle for those of us who accessed thing both directly via local mail clients (who don't tread "." as special) and via an IMAP server (which does tread "." as special). Were either maildir or IMAP servers really intended to run on an OS that didn't have such a thing as directories/folders/whatever?
Right now I've switched everything to mbox format to avoid the "." pitfall, but one of my local clients only understands maildir and IMAP, so I had to switch it over to use imap://localhost/. It all works, but having to use IMAP to access files that are right there in ~/Mail bugs me. :)
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