-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tony Finch wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2009, Benjamin Reed wrote: >> How about its complete disregard for IMAP subscriptions? > > To be fair, IMAP subscriptions are a misfeature. They were intended for > netnews-over-IMAP support, not for mail.
Perhaps having folders at all is a misfeature, and we should go back to only having POP. ;) >> My mail backup scripts automatically archive old mail into mailboxes >> that I don't subscribe to by default, so I can still hook back up to >> them and search them if need be. *Very* old stuff is in a subdirectory >> and gzipped. >> >> Guess which mail client scans EVERY file in your IMAP root, regardless >> of subscription, including trying to read .gz files? C'mon, guess! > > That's UW-IMAP hate Actually, I'm using dovecot. =) > or perhaps your fault for putting non-mail in an IMAP tree. Conceded, but even if I wasn't putting ancient mail in .gz files and stuck them somewhere else on my filesystem, the point still stands. I don't want it to friggin' scan everything, I have email back to the late 90's. I don't need that taking up index/memory/etc. space on my hard drive, but it is occasionally useful to subscribe to the folder temporarily to do some data mining. - -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development Blog: http://www.raccoonfink.com/ Music: http://music.raccoonfink.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKCtUcUu+jZtP2Zf4RAq8yAJ0RLoG8zCh/SUvIg0ZXO0zYuhVloACfdkWT QSrFeikf/OZYzxrkokch/TY= =KUXL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
