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Re: Whose bug is this: Mutt or Claws?



On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 08:54:51AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:

> > - 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?

That's a valid question. I don't think that a mixture of folders and
subfolders is very useful (although I used to like to have an "archived"
subfolder in mailing list folders), and I don't think it's important that
mutt support it. However, what is not nice that when a folder contains ONLY
subfolders AND a .mh_sequences tag, you get a blank screen. An useful
behavior could be:

1. Only subfolders and a .mh_sequences file: Just list the subfolders

2. A mixture of subfolders, message files and of course the
   .mh_sequence: List messages, but warn that there are subfolders.

This at least would make it transparent to the user that the folder
structure might need some maintenance.

--D.