Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal

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+Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu> writes:\r
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+> On Thu, 09 Jan 2014, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:\r
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+> I strongly disagree with requiring the cur/new component.  The cur/new\r
+> directory is an internal implementation detail of Maildir (and a rather\r
+> broken one at that) and no more a part of the "folder" of a piece of\r
+> mail than its final file name component.  It's also the less obvious\r
+> user interface; if we require the cur/new component, we *will* get\r
+> people asking why their folder searches aren't working, but if we strip\r
+> the cur/new component, nobody will be surprised.\r
+>\r
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+My gut instinct agrees with Austin here, at least for a prefix named\r
+"folder". Some factors I remember\r
+\r
+- are there some corner cases for people not using Maildir?\r
+- isn't there some information encoded in whether a message is in cur or\r
+  new? there was some discussion of mutt presenting this information\r
+\r
+d\r