> (Caskey Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > > Even if I was, BincIMAP should never take the rearrangement of > its on-disk structures lightly, regardless of the number of users > it has. There's nothing wrong with using dot as a path separator, > the fact that "INBOX" isn't prepended to subfolders of INBOX > maintains uniformity with the actual heirarchy. I understand your > issues with Mutt, but frankly I'm not very interested in bending > any server in the interest of a single application. Especially one > which is perfectly capable of functioning with the structures as-is.
I don't care about one application either: I care about violating a basic decades-old useful convention of the Unix operating system: that files and folders beginning with "." are hidden. All the GUI file manager tools, for example, have to be told specifically to show such files, and when you use that setting, they also show you the 400 configuration files you really wanted hidden. It's a simple matter of playing by the rules: if you make useful files, give them useful names. If they /should/ be hidden files, use a dot. I can't think of anything that /shouldn't/ be hidden more than a mailbox. I don't care what BINC uses as its separator; I don't really care about the on-disk representation is for its folders. For all I care, it could map folder "Foo" to "~/SesameStreet/FooMonster". I /do/ care that it is useful with IMAP tools such as MUAs (and for that reason it should be flexible in allowing folder names with CREATE and LIST), and I care that it doesn't do terribly incovenient things to my home directory, like putting my mail in folders I can't find when I do a text search or something. If it means breaking compatibility to fix what I consider an obvious bug, then sobeit. -- Lee Daniel Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
