From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus can't handle maildir groups with a space in the group name
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:22:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sl2rcx2b.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ik3o6lj.fsf@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Tue\, 27 Nov 2007 20\:01\:44 +0100")
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> (I know I can fiddle with OfflineIMAP and provide a customized group
> name to maildir folder translation somehow, but I don't see a reason why
> Gnus should fail with maildir groups with whitespaces.)
The interface between Gnus and its backends (such as nnmaildir)
involves some data being passed as space-delimited text, instead of as
structured values. So spaces won't work in group names, regardless of
which backnd you use.
paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-27 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-27 19:01 Tassilo Horn
2007-11-27 19:22 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2007-11-27 19:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-11-28 15:42 ` Simon Josefsson
2007-11-28 16:14 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-02 1:29 ` Paul Jarc
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