> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 04 September 2003 23:54
> To: James Developers List
> Cc: Darrell DeBoer; Kris Bravo; Joe Cheng; Maxwell
> Grender-Jones; Nawwar Kasrawi; Christian Myrvold; Kenny
> Smith; Peter Svensson; Sascha Kulawik
> Subject: RE: IMAP Development Pointers
>
>
> Ed,
>
> Other people who have expressed interest in contributing to IMAP are
> (alphabetically):
>
> Kris Bravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Joe Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Maxwell Grender-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Nawwar Kasrawi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Christian Myrvold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sascha Kulawik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Kenny Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Peter Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> And that is just this year. All it takes to do it is to do
> it. With Jason contributing help on the store changes, if
> just a few people would take the reins on IMAP, it could
> really pick up. Hopefully Darrell could spare some time to
> bring people up to speed.
>
> Jason, if the change to "user.folder" is made, then we can
> use, but don't even need maildir, since the string is just a
> simple key. The hierarchy is a bit of fiction at the moment.
> I mention this because IMAP may benefit from having mail
> attributes, which are supported by the existing JDBC and
> file-system repository formats, but not by the new mbox and
> planned maildir repositories.
>
> So I believe that:
>
> file://var/mail/inboxes/ --> file://var/mail/inboxes/noel (inbox)
> file://var/mail/inboxes/ --> file://var/mail/inboxes/noel.aFolder
> db[file]://maildb/inbox/ --> db[file]://maildb/inbox/noel (inbox)
> db[file]://maildb/inbox/ --> db[file]://maildb/inbox/noel.aFolder
> mbox:///var/mail/ --> mbox:///var/mail/noel (inbox)
> mbox:///var/mail/ --> mbox:///var/mail/noel.aFolder
>
>Is that what you had in mind? I am not showing a change. I am showing
how the >current code would map the repository name, which is the
portion appended on the >right-hand side.
Spot on Noel! I will test how this works in practise, but I think there
are only minimal code changes (if any) required to get folders working
in db[file]: and file:
I may support attributes in mbox by writing them into the headers of
each message. Other implementations do this, but it's highly inefficent
in terms of I/O. I think maildir can go for the moment as most people
use file: or db[file]: stores.
--- Noel
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