Re: nnimap subfolder problem

[Nicolas KOWALSKI <Nicolas.Kowalski@imag.fr>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> 
> But with nnimap, the directories and files exists on the server, so
> Gnus has no control of how they are named other than by replacing `.'
> with `/' in the group name but that would be confusing, I think.
> 

Confusing ? This is the standard behaviour for nnml and
nnfolder. The first time is used those (as well as Gnus actually), I
was confused. But then, I thought this storage using subdirectories
was the best method.


> I think everything would work fine if you create a group with a dot in
> its name using another client (I do this all the time).  What problems
> do you see?

I agree there are no problems. 

That just a question of habits and to make nnimap behave more like
nnml/nnfolder backends. In addition to this, I have never seen some of
our users use dot-named folders with their IMAP clients ; they always
prefer to create subfolders hierarchies, as I do (until now, perhaps).


> Or were you talking about the NOV cache?  It could translate `.' into
> `/' but I don't see the point, there would only be one file in most
> directories anyway, wouldn't it?

No point here.

> 
> Translating `.' into `/' is only something you need if your filesystem
> is 8+3 or similar and can't store e.g. "foo.bar.baz", isn't it?  I
> haven't seen any IMAP server that has this problem.

I agree.

Nicolas.