commit 34a814b6fb84cef086ccbabdc45d9bf6690f4ae8
Author: Oswald Buddenhagen <o...@users.sf.net>
Date: Mon Sep 9 20:08:28 2019 +0200
kill TODO item about killing INBOX
while it's correct that mbsync doesn't strictly need to support both
Inbox and Path in a single Channel due to being able to Group Channels,
this "simplification" would have some undesirable effects:
- the concept is part of IMAP and provides a certain level of
"zero-conf" (in particular via NAMESPACE). having to set up two Stores
and associated Channels for one Account to reproduce this
functionality would add quite some redundancy to common
configurations.
- implementing MapInbox and move detection across Channels would add
significant complexity.
one reason why one would want this change in the first place is to get
rid of the ambiguity of INBOX appearing right under Path. this could be
avoided by either using a different magic prefix that cannot appear in
actual mailbox names, or requiring a prefix for boxes inside path as
well. neither approach seems worth the effort, given that nesting
"INBOX" under Path causes problems for some other IMAP clients anyway.
TODO | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index b074e22..aa9ef54 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -39,12 +39,6 @@ Patterns.
normalize INBOX capitalization received from IMAP, to avoid anomalies.
-kill the concept of an INBOX, it is a relic from single-channel operation.
-if somebody needs it, he can have two stores with different Paths. the path
-can name a single (in-)box (curr. broken with maildir). an empty box name
-actually means empty, so the IMAP mailbox should use INBOX for Path (can't
-make that the default, as it would mess up the NAMESPACE).
-
add regexp-based mailbox path rewriting to the drivers. user would provide
expressions for both directions. every transformation would be immediately
verified with the inverse transform. PathDelimiter and Flatten would become
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