> These files are shown in the mailbox list because they are candidates for > mailboxes, but I agree that it looks a bit messy. Binc IMAP could skip all > entries that are not mailboxes - that would perhaps make more sense. > > I guess the reason nobody mentioned this before on the list is because > it's purely a cosmetic thing, and doesn't affect the server's > functionality in any way. :)
I suppose it depends on how you define the functionality. I define it as, "to allow me to read my mail as conveniently as possible". Obviously this is partially subjective, but since it is not convenient for anybody to see mailboxes which are not, in fact, mailboxes, and it is convenient for everybody to not waste mental energy parsing out the erroneous entries, I'd consider it a bug. What if bincimap randomly invented nonexistent mailboxes? What if it rearranged the order of your mailboxes every time you listed them? What if it added the word "foo" in front of every mailbox name? What if it rot13'ed all message bodies? These are all "purely cosmetic" too. My point is that, on a computer, it's all information anyways, there's no "cosmetic" and "non-cosmetic", only "efficient" and "inefficient" representations. Anyways, do I take it that the bincimap developers don't consider this a bug and I should plan on fixing it myself if that's what I want?
