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Re: [sup-talk] Maildir support



Excerpts from Matthieu Rakotojaona's message of Tue Apr 12 23:43:10 +0200 2011:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:41 PM, dtk <d.t.k@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Although I still wonder a bit
> > why this feature hasn't been built in right from the beginning
> My two cents, which are only worth one :
Au contraire! I highly appreciate your thoughts and opinion!

> So, to sum up, with sup, one mail has multiple labels, and with
> Maildir/mbox, one folder( ~ one label) has multiple mails.
>
> So, when you apply labels to mails with sup, you have to copy them to
> all the folders in the maildir format. But you also have to check for
> all the folders where the mail could be, ... which is not so trivial.
I have to admit I wasn't very precise when asking for 'proper' maildir
handling. In fact, I didn't intent to ask for a solution that maps the complete
label concept (which as you stated is way more powerful) onto the old-fashioned
directory based approach. What I rather had in mind was a subset like the
exception that is made for sent mail for the other standard directories. Sent
mail is already being copied into a specified source to be kind of backwards
compatible with the classical maildir structure. And I would feel it to be a
natural extension to do so for spam, deleted, read mail as well.

> Waiting on the heliotrop/turnsole projects !
Thanks for the hint. Since two very well respected colleagues of mine are using
'not much' right now, you might want to add that one to your list in case you
don't mind using emacs.

l8r
dtk
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