On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:26:40PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 13:45 +0300, Tom Alsberg wrote: > > Another wish would be a better form of cascading - subfolders as > > subdirectories, instead of this awkward Maildir++ dot-separated > > format. > > I think this is possible already with CVS HEAD: > > mail_location = Maildir:~/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
I'll try that out. Will be nice if it works. > > Having looked again at the code, this does indeed not seem all that > > easy. The code handling the mailbox namespace browsing seems too > > tightly integrated with the code handling the mailboxes themselves. > > Did you look at v1.0 or the CVS HEAD? 1.0, for now. That's the last version I built here. I'll look at 1.1 now that I have heard there are interesting changes there. > > I suppose it would be best if those two were separated, so a namespace > > module will handle issues like "what subfolders does the folder Foo > > have" and "what is the physical path for folder Foo.Bar", while the > > mailbox module will handle issues like "what messages are there in > > folder whose physical path is mail/.Foo.Bar" and "fetch the message > > with UID 117 from the folder whose physical path is mail/.Foo.Bar". > > The mailbox access module will query the namespace module to obtain > > those paths. > > This is what mailbox_list and mailbox_storage separation was supposed to > do. There is still 1:1:1 with > mailbox_list:mail_namespace:mail_storage Meaning that every mailbox_list module needs to have a corresponding mail_storage module and vice versa? > but I don't think it's too difficult to change that. At least compared > to what it's like in v1.0. I'll check what has changed in CVS since 1.0... Thanks, -- Tom -- Tom Alsberg - hacker (being the best description fitting this space) Web page: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~alsbergt/ DISCLAIMER: The above message does not even necessarily represent what my fingers have typed on the keyboard, save anything further.
