[Kde-pim] Maildir resource (was: Review Request: make the maildir filename separator configurable)

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Friday 21 August 2009, Thomas McGuire wrote:
> On Thursday 20 August 2009 22:40:01 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 August 2009, Martin Koller wrote:
> > > Your points might be valid. However: the patch does in principle
> > > implement what was already done hardcoded before. The only thing
> > > it changes, is the possibility to change the hardcoded value. And
> > > in the light of the switch to the new akonadi maildir handling,
> > > which currently does not have this problem, as it does not use
> > > the maildir schema for the filenames,
> >
> > Interesting. Who says so?
>
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdepim/akonadi/resources/maildir/libm
>aildir/maildir.cpp, look at Maildir::addEntry(), which calls
> createUniqueFileName(), which in turn calls QUuid::createUuid().
> So the Akonadi resource currently does not use the maildir file
> naming scheme, only the directory naming scheme.

This means Akonadi will not cope well with other mail clients accessing 
the maildir folder. If the other mail client changes a flag of a 
message (effectively changing the filename) then the Akonadi maildir 
resource will assume that one message has been deleted and a new 
message has been added. This will break any links to the changed 
message.

Anyway, I probably shouldn't complain but do something about it.


Regards,
Ingo
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