D. J. Bernstein writes:
> Say you have a bunch of mboxes. You choose filenames for them. Of
> course, some filenames are prohibited:
>
> * You can't use the name .., because that's a directory.
> * You can't use the name /Mail, because you don't have permission.
> * You can't use the name Mailbox/2, because Mailbox is a file.
>
> But the complete list of restrictions is reasonably simple, and people
> don't seem to have much trouble dealing with a few special characters.
>
> Now change each mbox to a maildir. Whatever filenames worked with mbox
> will continue to work with maildir. You now have a bunch of maildirs.
> What exactly is the problem?
IMAP permits the name Mailbox/2. Feel free to argue that that's
stupid. It's just a drop in the bucket of stupidity which is IMAP.
Did I say stupidity? I mean another word beginning with s.
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