On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Dan Mills wrote: > On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 05:07 PM, Dan Mills wrote: > > > On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 03:42 PM, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: > > > >> .foo -> .foo > >> ..foo -> .foo > >> > >> How does that sound? > > > > Why is that special-cased? > > I see why - to differentiate it from "foo", which would map to "foo". > > I am not terribly pleased with the solution, but I don't see a clean > way to do it, either.
But why is there any need to do it at all? > The only alternative I can think of is Charlie > Bradie's suggestion of simply banning dots in mailbox names, which I > was in favor of at first. Brady, please. What a terrible thing to do on St Patrick's Day! > But that just creates more problems when the > user decides to manually move in an mbox file called "foo" into the > IMAPdir. The current suggestion has no support for mbox files. But even if it did - why is there any need for bincimap to support manually moved files? There are an infinite numbers of ways to break bincimap by adding, deleting or modifying the files that bincimap needs to work - that might just be one of them. -- Charlie
