From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39295 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas KOWALSKI Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnimap subfolder problem Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:04:28 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175025 27118 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:37:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:37:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 12412 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2001 13:05:05 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 16 Oct 2001 13:05:05 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15tTto-0007Bn-00; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:04:48 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:04:26 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA26135 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:04:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 12405 invoked by alias); 16 Oct 2001 13:04:31 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12400 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2001 13:04:31 -0000 Original-Received: from imag.imag.fr (129.88.30.1) by gnus.org with SMTP; 16 Oct 2001 13:04:31 -0000 Original-Received: from ormelune.imag.fr (ormelune.imag.fr [129.88.43.35]) by imag.imag.fr (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9GD4Sx04449 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:04:28 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from olan.imag.fr.imag.fr (olan [129.88.43.51]) by ormelune.imag.fr (8.9.1b+Sun/jtpda-5.3.3) with SMTP id PAA02961 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:04:22 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #v^9{p"~.e3TDs~r\ (Simon Josefsson's message of "Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:35:19 +0200") Original-Lines: 40 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39295 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39295 Simon Josefsson 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.