On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 03:53:59PM +0300, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen > <oswald.buddenha...@gmx.de> wrote: > > 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. > > Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I do use `Flatten` with `#` as the > separator instead of `.`. (In fact before there was this option I had > applied a patch to allow hierarchical IMAP folders and flatten them > with such a pattern.) > ok. meanwhile i also noticed that i implemented Flatten outside the maildir driver, so it can apply to imap mailboxes as well. so it's going to stay as-is, orthogonal to the new option (that's a bit confusing from the user perspective, as Hierarchy obviously makes no sense when Flatten is used, but whatever).
> A minor comment: except `Flatten`, all the others seem to introduce > some naming ambiguity, because a maildir already has `cur`, `new` and > `tmp` folders, plus a few other `.*` files used by `mbsync` and > perhaps other external tools. > correct. it's the status quo of Maildir, and i don't see how to change anything in it without breaking lots of stuff. > If I would to implement it from scratch, [...] > if you did that, you'd be well advised not to use the Maildir concept to start with, as it's a terribly inefficient format. ;) on the bright side, it's also a very easy to handle format ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
