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27 From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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28 To: Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>,
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30 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] lib: make folder: prefix literal
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54 Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu> writes:
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56 > On Thu, 09 Jan 2014, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
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58 > I strongly disagree with requiring the cur/new component. The cur/new
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59 > directory is an internal implementation detail of Maildir (and a rather
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60 > broken one at that) and no more a part of the "folder" of a piece of
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61 > mail than its final file name component. It's also the less obvious
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62 > user interface; if we require the cur/new component, we *will* get
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63 > people asking why their folder searches aren't working, but if we strip
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64 > the cur/new component, nobody will be surprised.
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67 My gut instinct agrees with Austin here, at least for a prefix named
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68 "folder". Some factors I remember
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70 - are there some corner cases for people not using Maildir?
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71 - isn't there some information encoded in whether a message is in cur or
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72 new? there was some discussion of mutt presenting this information
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