Re: [Evolution] Maildir and dot hierarchy separator

[Paul Ezvan <paul ezvan fr>]

Le mercredi 28 avril 2010 Ã 12:11 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan a Ãcrit :
> On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 10:24 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > > It appears that Maildir does use the a.b.c format as you say. I wasn't
> > > > aware of that.
> > > More precisely Maildir does use standard subfolders but Maildir++ which
> > > is a compatible extension created by the developer of Courrier-imap uses
> > > the a.b.c format. 
> >
> > Yeah.  "compatible extension"... famous last words.  Isn't Courier an
> > IMAP server?  Why not use IMAP?
> >
> > <rant>This idea of dinking around under a server is just bad, period.  A
> > server should *serve* access to its content and be the sole master of
> > that content;  one of the reasons I love Cyrus IMAPd, it doesn't make
> > any pretense about being an IMAP/file server.  It is an IMAP server -
> > full stop.  Users, including me the admin, have no business thrashing
> > about in the mail store.  There is no point - mail can be accessed via
> > IMAP and administration operations can be performed via tools.</rant>
>
> Agreed (vehemently :-)
>
> poc

I agree, this was just a test which show that it is bad :)

Paul