Re: Why is inbox not relative to path?

2012-02-06 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 03:34:07PM +, Allan Wind wrote: > Perhaps it would be less surprising to have relatively paths to Path > instead of $HOME? > maybe. the doc and the reality don't agree with each other anyway. this was discussed on this list before. -

Re: Why is inbox not relative to path?

2012-02-06 Thread Allan Wind
On 2012-02-06 09:37:51, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > because the imap spec says it's special. it can live in an entirely > arbitrary place - e.g., while everything else is in $HOME/Maildir, INBOX > can be /var/mail/$USER. > you can specify the inbox path for maildir stores (and it should be > proper

Re: Why is inbox not relative to path?

2012-02-06 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
because the imap spec says it's special. it can live in an entirely arbitrary place - e.g., while everything else is in $HOME/Maildir, INBOX can be /var/mail/$USER. you can specify the inbox path for maildir stores (and it should be properly mapped even if you put it into the normal Path), so it sh