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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 00:56 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:24 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > You already have determined it is a maildir file, otherwise you
> wouldn't
> > be using evolution or kmail to show it.
> 
> Well, gnome-vfs has determined it to be a maildir file, and when we
> open
> it, we're just passing the URI to gnome-open, which opens it in
> whatever
> the appropriate viewer is.  There isn't any special handling for
> maildir
> files, just as there isn't for OpenOffice files or PDFs, except when
> extracting format-specific data as part of our indexing process.

That doesn't make sense.  A maildir file isn't a maildir file unless it
is in a maildir directory.  As a standalone file it might be a
message/rfc822, but it isn't a 'maildir' file.