Hey, Charlie! On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Charlie Brady wrote: >On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: >> to ~/Maildir should do the trick. >I don't think this is necessary. INBOX location is a special case, and is >a local policy issue. It should be configured. I think that a command line >argument when the daemon is invoked is the way to go. My inbox is >~/Maildir, so I would have the daemon come to life as me (execed by the >authenticator) in my home directory, with a commandline argument of >"Maildir". No parsing to be done, and no ambiguity about where INBOX is. >(This is how qmail-pop3d works, no?)
I don't want INBOX to be too special. I want INBOX to be a mailbox just like all other mailboxes. That's my "dream". So if you have all your mail in Maildir/ (like I also do), and that happens to be a Maildir (?), then it will not be a leaf, which is not preferred but supported. If Maildir/ is your INBOX then in this scheme the folder Maildir will be your "mail depository" and "." will be your INBOX. If you choose to do this, then any Maildir/INBOX folder will be ignored and the admin will be notified via a silent log message that says "warning". The advantage of placing all mailboxes inside a closed area like mail/ is that LIST will be more efficient, working only with mailboxes. But this would be an admin setting. >[Why would "mail/INBOX/" be preferred to "Maildir/" for INBOX?] >I would then add a second command line argument which is the root of the >folder tree. In your example this would be "./mail/". That argument could >be optional, and would default to "./". Agreed, this should be configurable. >> Comments please, comments! :-D >I'm in. Must dust off C++ skills. Let me know where I can help. >You haven't mentioned uidvalidity location. Inside each maildir? Yes - inside each Maildir we will store the Maildir uidvalidity and cache files. For other backends (in a galaxy far, far away) they would have to find their own way of storing uidvalidity. Andy -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | Nil desperandum
