Hi Cameron, On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 12:08:54PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 05Dec2015 12:55, Nicolas Sebrecht <[email protected]> wrote:
> >While at it, I'd rather make OfflineIMAP ignore any dot file. > > Might I advocate for ignoring any filename not adhering to the maildir > filename > shape? See: > > http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html > > You might choose to be less strict, but still require filenames to start with > a > digit (old scheme) or one of #XRIVMPQ. AFAIR, we don't even exclude files with a colon. > Also, have we any counter examples of maildir using programs which do not > _create_ files according to the scheme? About my patch, I decided to ignore dot files only to both go the lazy way and be legacy compatible as much as possible. However, I'd welcome patches for stricter matching rules about naming schemes as long as it's made optional. We could even make such option the default and see if counter examples exist in wild since users can roll back to the historic behaviour. :-) Something like "maildir_scan_strict_naming = yes" and a documentation line requesting feedback from users having to change to "no". -- Nicolas Sebrecht _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - http://offlineimap.org
