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 11:15 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> 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.

I realize that you might be missing some context here.  We're talking
about maildir files that are located in random places on your
filesystem, not ones that are managed by an Evolution account.
Ie, /home/joe/maildir-backup/cur or whatever.

Joe