Re: imap, maildir, folders with both subfolders and messages
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- Subject: Re: imap, maildir, folders with both subfolders and messages
- From: Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:46:22 -0600
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On Monday, January 19 at 10:13 AM, quoth Rejo Zenger:
> The thing is, most of the mailboxes that are marked with a "+" do
> contain subfolders, but they do not contain any messages. I presume,
> the "+" mark is present because the mailbox does have the maildir
> folders "cur", "new" and "tmp". So, the "+" sign doesn't tell
> whether the folder contains messages as well, but just whether it
> *could* contain messages. Right?
Correct.
> Then, I noticed that in the IMAP folder listing, any folder that
> contains any sub-folders has this trailing dot in the name. I
> presume this is normal behaviour. If so, then what is the additional
> value of the "+" mark?
The value isn't huge, but it does provide some consistency and a bit
more visual clarity. It's easier to overlook an extra character at the
end of the folder name than it is to overlook that plus symbol. Also,
the character at the end of the folder name varies based on your IMAP
server's settings and the value of $imap_delim_chars in your muttrc.
The "+" mark is consistent.
~Kyle
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