On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 08:54:51AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > > - Should mutt show subdirectories of directories that contain a > > .mh_sequences file? > > Put another way, can MH mailboxes legally contain subfolders? > According to this: http://docs.python.org/lib/mailbox-mh.html, yes, > indeed they can, so it's a mutt bug. > > The next question to ask, before filing a bug, is: in mutt's browser, > how should it display this information to the user?
That's a valid question. I don't think that a mixture of folders and subfolders is very useful (although I used to like to have an "archived" subfolder in mailing list folders), and I don't think it's important that mutt support it. However, what is not nice that when a folder contains ONLY subfolders AND a .mh_sequences tag, you get a blank screen. An useful behavior could be: 1. Only subfolders and a .mh_sequences file: Just list the subfolders 2. A mixture of subfolders, message files and of course the .mh_sequence: List messages, but warn that there are subfolders. This at least would make it transparent to the user that the folder structure might need some maintenance. --D.
