On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Tom Samplonius wrote:
But this doesn't really help with sub-folders, and I guess you are
talking about rotation of sent-mail folder on the first of the month?
Monthly rotation is what Wes was worried about.
But sub-folders could be handled the same way.
Mailbox means subfolder, at least inside Cyrus.
The mboxlist_* and mailbox_* subroutines all only manipulate single
subfolders. Things like recursive renames happen at a higher level.
The mailbox db could link a mailbox name to an id, so nothing has to be
changed in the filesystem when a rename is performed.
I tend to agree. The obvious implementation would be a mapping from
mailbox name to (really) Unique identifier in the mboxlist. Then a mailbox
rename would only involve an update to the mboxlist.
However:
1) This would be a very major change.
2) Compatibility with existing mailstores would be a problem.
3) The mboxlist can be reconstructed from the layout on the
filesystem + the cyrus.header files.
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