On 2003-11-26 at 00:03 -0500, David T-G wrote: > I don't see that; I see a list of exactly what is allowed in the Maildir, > and anything not listed is not allowed. It depends on your viewpoint. I would say, anything not explicitly prohibited is allowed. The spec does not specifically prohibit nested Maildirs. > Only Dan can really answer authoritatively, though (although he may > have already; I didn't ask on the qmail list), so it's not much worth > discussing. Yeah, right - only Dan can answer this authoritatively. Unfortunately, it could be difficult to get a response from him sometimes. ;) > % Exactly. Undefined does not mean illegal. > > But since it isn't within the spec it is not expected to be supported and > so it's just askign for trouble. OK, so maybe I'll soften my position a > bit to allow "undefined but not specifically prohibited", although I > still stand by *my* interpretation above, but we don't ever want to be > messing around in the undefined territory anyway! I beg to disagree. The spec is focused on the structure of a (single) Maildir. How you arrange your Maildirs is beyond its scope. I wish Dan (or somebody else) would publish a new version of the spec, or another spec, which addresses this issues. This is exactly what Mr. Sam did with his Maildir++, by the way. Personally, I do not agree with the design decisions Maildir++ based on. > % Neither Mutt, nor OfflineIMAP (which I use to synchronize my laptop with > % the server) do not have any problems with this setup. > > That doesn't make it right :-) ... and doesn't make it wrong either. ;-P > % It's up to MUAs and servers (IMAP, etc.) to prevent from creating nested > % Maildirs with new,cur,tmp names. Users shouldn't have to know about the > % internals. ;) > > Touche, but all the MUA/server could say is "I refuse to allow that name > since it presents a conflict", which to me is worse than saying "you > can't create a Maildir within a Maildir" since the latter is more general > and more uniform. Such error message would be fine with me, and some (if not most of) other users. I do not see why we would deny users ability to have nested Maildirs just because it isn't "more general and more uniform". I don't buy that. ;) Mutt is about flexibility, after all. ;) Sergei
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