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Re: Whose bug is this: Mutt or Claws?

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On Friday, January 25 at 09:27 AM, quoth Dan H.:
> - Is it legal for Claws, according to the MH spec, to put 
> .mh_sequences in places that don't contain actual messages?

Yes, it's technically "legal". By doing so, Claws is defining those 
folders as MH mailboxes, but that's generally harmless.

> - Should mutt show subdirectories of directories that contain a
>  .mh_sequences file?

Put another way, can MH mailboxes legally contain subfolders? 
According to this: http://docs.python.org/lib/mailbox-mh.html, yes, 
indeed they can, so it's a mutt bug.

The next question to ask, before filing a bug, is: in mutt's browser, 
how should it display this information to the user? (Think of it in 
terms of "minimally invasive to the existing way of displaying things" 
not in terms of "if I was writing a mail browser from scratch, I'd 
make it look like Claws", because that will be more likely to get your 
bug addressed).

I suggest double-listing in the parent directory, e.g. when browsing a 
parent directory (note the use of the slash):

     Folder1
     Folder2
     Folder2/
     Folder3
     Folder4/

While you're at it, mutt has this same problem in imap. :)

~Kyle
- -- 
Science is what we can tell a computer. Art is everything else.
                                                               -- Knuth
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