[Kde-pim] Maildir directory structure [Re: A sigh]

[Andras Mantia]

Anders Lund wrote:

> Lørdag den 11. februar 2012 15:52:32 Andras Mantia skrev:
>> KMail(1&2) uses this:
>> 
>> Folder1
>>   cur
>>   new
>>   tmp
>> .Folder1.directory  - contains the subfolders of Folder1
>>   cur
>>   new
>>   tmp
>>   Folder2
>>      cur
>>      new
>>      tmp
>>   .Folder2.directory - subfolder for Folder2
>>      Folder3
> 
>>   
>> Dovecot would need this as:
>> Folder1
>>   cur
>>   new
>>   tmp
>>   .Folder2
>>      cur
>>      new
>>      tmp
>>   .Folder2.Folder3
>>      cur
>>      new
>>      tmp
>> 
>> As  you can see they are completely different. In dovecot style sub-
>> subdirectories are not layed out as such on the file system.
>> 
>> Sincerely I'd just keep the current layout as it is and not bother with
>> "real" subdirectories.
>> This will make bug 289183 a wontfix and will require user intervention to
>> import completely the folder structure.
> 
> In kmail 1 there was both visible and hidden subdirectories, some of which
> had localized names. In kmail 2 ~/Mail (or wereever you store your mail)
> is a joke - it is ALWAYS empty apart from empty cur, new and tmp
> subdirectories.

Sorry, but you mix a lot of things here without having knowledge about.

The fact that by default KMail creates ~/.local/share/local-mail and 
~/local/share/.local-mail/directory is one thing and actually I'm looking in 
to make it more user friendly, like local-mail containing the top-level 
folders, just like in the old days.

Also KMail2 *can* deal with structures like that already, it is just that 
the default created structure is not like that. 

And if you saw in KMail1 both hidden and visible subdirectories, it is 
because KMail1 used a mix of maildir and mbox storage. That's called 
mixedmaildir nowadays.
 
> Personally, I don't care much what the layout looks like, as long as mail
> is stored where the user thinks, in my case indside ~/Mail, as long as it
> is just functional inside kmail. This was true until kmail 2, and it
> should be again.

It is partially still true, see above.

Andras
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