On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:15:02 +0100 Mildred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Le Thu 10/01/2008 à 09:24 Hubert Chathi à écrit: > > Nah, there are plenty of ways to make filenames, and make sure that > > they are unique. e.g., use the message ID, timestamp, number them > > sequentially, etc. > > Yes of couse, Claws-mail handles this perfectly ... The only problem > is that for the user that can open the filemanager to where his mails > are stored won't be able to recognize which mail is which. IMHO (and you're free to disagree), it isn't much better having one big file with all the mails in it. Personally, if I want to look at some email, and don't have my mail reader open, I find it fairly simple to do a grep, and look at what gets pulled out. But that's just me, and I freely admit that I am an atypical user. Several other desktop environments (GNOME, KDE) are integrating search, which should make things easier, and make it more advantageous to have one-file-per-email, IMHO. > Either we have to create a filemanager that can handle that, or use a > mailbox file instead. So the user can find his mails. I know that > Étoila plans to create a filemanager that will have many features, but > what if we want to be compatible with the rest of the world (those who > don't use Étoilé, almost everyone). <joke>Take over the world, so that we don't have to worry about compatibility with anyone else.</joke> (Although, that's probably what Microsoft's strategy is...) > Note that if you want one mail per file, it could be possible to > create mailbox bundles (like application bundles in GNUstep). That is > a folder that would contains all the emails (with an email per file) > but not displayed as a folder by the filemanager, but like any other > file, with the default action not to open it in the filemanager, but > by the mail reader. > > Bundles are something I would like to be approved by > freedesktop.org ... I tried w/o success. With bundles for example, you > could create a bookmark (to a web ste) containing a cached version of > the page. Bundles don't really fit into the "normal" UNIX mindset, so I'm not too surprised that freedesktop.org isn't really interested in it. -- Hubert Chathi - Email/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
