On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 07:50 PM, Charlie Brady wrote:
* Dots are not required in the filesystem (User requested, hence IMAPdir).
I don't understand what you mean here.
I should've been more clear.
As I understand it, users have requested the ability to have mailboxes in the filesystem that are not prefixed with a dot. IMAPdir attempts to solve that. Hence, the leading dot is not required (as per the IMAPdir draft).
* There is a need to disambiguate the same mailbox name with and without a leading dot, then.
I just don't accept that.
It follows directly from the last point. The IMAPdir draft clearly accepts mailboxes with and without the leading dot. Hence, the two must be told apart.
My comments were about the IMAPdir structure and its intended interpretation, not about policy imposed by binc imap.
But they are the same thing. "IMAPdir" (currently) has no existence outside bincimap. And I don't see that it is likely to any time soon.
It doesn't matter wether third parties implement it right away or not. Having a fully documented, not to mention sane, storage hierarchy is a Good Thing(tm).
-Dan
