Re: [bincimap] using Mailbox and Message

[HIROSHIMA Naoki]

Hi Andy,

Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
 Mailbox* foo = depot.get("INBOX/foo");


That line asks the depot to get a Mailbox * object that matches the type
of INBOX/foo. What you would usually get is either a 0-object or a Maildir
* object.
this clears me up. the argument represents the type of folder, not 
folder itself. this was what i was misunderstanding :-(


   Mailbox* bar = depot.get("INBOX/bar");
   bar->imapSelect(depot.mailboxToFilename("INBOX/bar"));
   Mailbox::iterator e2 = bar->end();
   for (Mailbox::iterator i2 = bar->begin(); i2 != e2;++i2) {
     Message & message = *i2;
     logger << "INBOX/bar: " << message.getID() << endl;
   }
 }


That code is supposed to work ;-) although it's quite inefficient but I 
guess you know that. I'll take a look and see if I can make it work.
yeah, that'd be nice. it seemed that the inner loop destroyed something 
of outer loop and ended up accessing somewhere wrong.


if you copy or move a read message to other folder, it will appear as 
unread.


Yes, that is a problem today. The easiest approach I can think of is that
the COPY operator stores the flags on the messages as they are written to
new/ in the Maildir. I have no idea wether this is allowed or not in
Maildir, but if there is no direct indication of this _not_ being allowed
I think we should post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and see what the gurus say about
it.
the document, http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html, doesn't clearly say 
that messages should be copied to new/ first, although it implies.

so, i think that we can copy files to cur/ directly as long as file 
names hold _info_.

btw, courier-imap copies files to cur/ not new/.  we don't need to 
follow it but refering to it doesn't hurt us, does it? :-)


PS: The COPY, FETCH and APPEND operators suffer today from the incomplete 
Mailbox/Message design. Hacks to make the flags stuff work are fine, but
the code is likely to change. :-)
i see... how soon are you going to refactor those things?
guess i should go easy for a while to see what will happen.
-- Hiroshima