On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Charlie Brady wrote: >On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Dan Mills wrote: >'.' is the hierarchy separator. Although it isn't defined by RFC 2060, it >makes sense to me that a leading hierarchy separator can be deleted - it >isn't separating anything. Therefore .foo and foo are the same folder. >This folder should always be .foo *or* foo in the file system storage. >Which of these we choose depends, I think, on how compatible we wish to be >with the paper definition of Maildir++.
Here comes me with a constructed example again. If you have two mailboxes: .foo and foo, and the client says "DELETE foo", which mailbox is then deleted? What if the client then issues the same "DELETE foo" once more. Is the second mailbox deleted? Andy :) -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | Nil desperandum
