Re: [evolution-patches] Re: [Evolution] Patch to handle "file://" uri in Mail-component.

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:04 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> why can't beagle just be fixed to use maildir:// uris? as NotZed said,
> file:// is too generic to work properly.

Because maildir:// is too specific to work properly. :)

Beagle just picks up the files on disk, and the right way to reference a
file on disk is with a file URI.  Mime types should be used to
distinguish files on the file system, not some arbitrary URI scheme.

Joe