On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 11:34 AM, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote:
Everyone. Summing up some of the recent threads, how does this sound:
1) Maildir structuring for Binc IMAP changes.
These sound pretty good to me. I only have one comment/question:
Also, we change the delimiter, which under no circumstance can be a dot '.'. This is to ensure compatibility with Maildir. Ex- Couriers will get this funny output from LIST:
tag LIST "" "*" * LIST (\UnMarked) "/" "INBOX" * LIST (\UnMarked) "/" ".work" * LIST (\UnMarked) "/" ".Sent/2002"
This means we have backwards compatibility with Maildir++. The special case is that the first dot is actually interpreted as part of the folder name, and not as a meta symbol.
Why? Using dot as a separator seems sane, so you'd have:
.foo.bar -> /foo/bar ("foo/bar" reported on imap).
But why have:
.foo -> .foo (".foo" reported on imap).
instead of:
.foo -> /foo ("foo" reported on imap).
That is, do a s/\./\//g and treat dots as separators in all cases. If they are at the beginning of the mailbox string, then strip it off and show it as a toplevel mailbox over imap.
-Dan
