On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote: > > > INBOX --> . > > > Foo --> ./.Foo > > > Bar --> ./.Bar > > > Foo.Bar --> ./.Foo:Bar > > > Foo.Bar.Baz --> ./.Foo:Bar:Baz > > > INBOX.Foo --> ./.:Foo > > > INBOX.Foo.Bar --> ./.:Foo:Bar > > > > Why aren't the latter two ./.INBOX:Foo and ./.INBOX:Foo:Bar? > > That would work too; it just seems a little esthetically > cleaner not to name "INBOX" explicitly at that level since > it's kind of an implied name.
It's an implied name for one special case, "INBOX". I'm suggesting only that the IMAP folder "INBOX.Foo.Bar", if you chose to create it, would appear in the file system as ./.INBOX:Foo:Bar, just as "IMBOX.Foo.Bar" would appear as ./.IMBOX:Foo:Bar. We have one special name "INBOX", mandated by the RFCs. Why do we need any more special cases? -- Charlie Brady
