On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:48:03PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 21.3.2005, at 08:12, Tom Alsberg wrote:
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 03:16:23PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 6.3.2005, at 13:48, Tom Alsberg wrote:
<snip /> Is there no way to just have Dovecot detect whether the mailbox is in maildir or mbox format on opening?
There's no way for now.
Are there any plans to add this option? How difficult would it be to change Dovecot to check the type on open? Any guidance on how to do that?
The problem is that currently the mailbox listing code is combined with the actual mailbox format handling code.
Oh, I see...
Any plans to separate those to enable mixing of mailboxes at some point?
They would have to be separated in some way so that the mailbox handling code is run only when mailbox is being opened. Except there would also have to be some kind of mailbox format specific filters in the listing code, so that nothing would be shown under "~/mail/foo" if ~/mail/foo/new (and cur and tmp?) exists.
Why? There can be an hierarchy of mailboxes (a mailbox can contain sub-mailboxes, etc.)
I would more like say that if new, (and cur, and tmp?) exist, it will be treated as maildir, and only those subdirectories will not be shown...
-- Tom
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