Great !
I'm looking forward to the Verbatim setup, becasue it would work best
with notmuch and afew Folder Name Filter [0].

i also think that these 4 options should make everyone happy.

cheers, varac

[0] https://afew.readthedocs.org/en/latest/filters.html#foldernamefilter


On 19.04.2015 11:24, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> one of the most common complaints about mbsync is the somewhat
> questionalbe subfolder naming, so i'm thinking about alternatives.
> 
> the next question is whether anyone uses the Flatten option with
> anything but the dot as separator? i suspect no, so i'd take away that
> configurability.
> 
> suppose a mailbox named top/sub/subsub, and a new Hierarchy option:
> 
> Verbatim - verbatim folder names: top/sub/subsub
> Legacy - subfolder names are prefixed with dots: top/.sub/.subsub
>       (default for backwards compatibility reasons)
> Maildir++ - subfolder names are joined with dots and the
>       result is prefixed with another dot: top/.sub.subsub
>       (this is what the Legacy format should have been to start with)
> Flatten - folder names are joined with dots: top.sub.subsub
> 
> i think it might even be a good idea to emit a warning about using the
> legacy format when a subfolder is being created and the option is not
> explicitly specified.
> 
> previously, i proposed allowing arbitrary name transforms based on
> regular expressions, but that doesn't seem terribly useful, so i don't
> think i'll ever pursue this.
> 
> objections? better ideas?
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