On Wednesday, 2014-07-16, 17:30:13, David Goodenough wrote: > On Wednesday 16 July 2014 17:39:55 Kevin Krammer wrote: > > The structure, i.e. using a subdirectory starting with a period to > > indicate > > a sub folder, is a widely used one when it comes to Maildir storage. > > Another very common implementation of that is Maildir++ > > > > It is a form of disambiguation, e.g. protecting against a user creating a > > folder with names "new", "tmp" or "cur", which have special meanings in > > Maildir. > > > > Cheers, > > Kevin > > Kevin, > > I understand that, but I think there is a little more to it that that. > Tools like grep ... * do not search them (yes I know I can use grep ... .* > but I have to do that as well. Most of the time I need to access these > files to find things, rather than to mess around with directory structures. When I am working with files, like searching in files, I always work with find. > My problem is not I realise with KDE, but is with the whole mail community. > Its not a show stopper, just an nuisance which I could live without. Well, maildir is just one possible options for mail storage. It is just one of the most widely used ones, so it becomes a natural candidate for early support. One could for example come up with "inverse maildir" where every sub folder is a direct directory and the operational directory begin with a period. Or not working with folders at all but with labels/tags. And so on. So far most experimental backend contributions are for remote backends though. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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