On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Patrick Ohly <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 18:55 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: >> Maildir is good, none denies it. But maildir is already there, but not >> sure how many use it. > > I do, and I know several other people who do. The question how to enable > maildir for an account is a question that comes up often on the users > mailing list, so the demand exists. If not that many people actually is > it, that's probably because switching to it requires quite a bit of > fiddling. > >> I remember multiple problems, some subdirs, >> windows support etc. Milan did an analysis, some time back, dont >> remember that very well tbh. > > Deciding to move away from mbox as the default format would be the > perfect opportunity to address these problems and make more users happy: > those who already use maildir and those who can start to use it and then > benefit from its advantages. >
I really like the above statement honestly ;-). Fix up or (Re)Invent? Its the choice that needs to be made with the options and conditions at the current scenario. I would like to summarize like that. -Srini. _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
