On Sunday 20 May 2007, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:53:32PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote: > > I use KMail with Maildir for all my mail, except for my "patches" mail folder > > where I copy patches to import into my repos (which is in mbox format). > > KMail makes it easy to mix mbox and Maildir folders, so it's not really a > > big deal for me, but I would of course prefer Maildir support if it's > > possible to get it right. > > > > Not sure how I feel about the usefulness of the patch if it requires correct > > sorting, and most mail clients turn out to _not_ sort correctly. Of course > > I have no idea what most mail clients do, but KMail seems to get it about > > right, AFAICS (mail filename starts with timestamp, so they're at least > > sorted roughly on (arrival) date). > > [ I sent this only to Johan, re-sending to the rest of the people now. > Sorry Johan for the dupe ] > > I discussed this with a pine user in #git and we concluded (looking at > the respective code) that both Mutt and Pine generate correct filenames > based on when that mail arrived to the Maildir. > > I use Mutt, and to test it I picked a thread that didn't arrive in > order, tagged and copied it to a different Maildir, patches were > splitted in correct order. Well, if Mutt, Pine, and KMail all get it right, then it looks like a useful feature to add. Does anybody now of (current versions of) mail clients that do _not_ get this right? -- Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> www.herland.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
