Re: [bug-mailutils] Skeleton for maildir

[Jeff Bailey]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 06:10:39PM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

> I'd only like to notice that the maildir folder structure
> is pretty similar to MH (except some minor details). Existing MH
> support should be able to read and create messages in maildir
> folders, except creating tmp/time.pid.host link. Wouldn't it
> be a good idea to implement maildir on top of it?

Ah, cool! I didn't know that - I never looked into the on-disk format of
MH.  I'll dig into that.

> > Also, it's not clear to me the best way to alter the testsuite so that
> > we can test a maildir implementation.  When I'd like to do is use the
> > same tests that we're doing on the mbox for now, and rerun them as
> > maildir.  If we can do that, I'd like to enable the tests as XFAILs for
> > now.

> I guess I'll have to hack the testsuite a bit to enable this. Do you
> plan to add maildir testcases to every testsuite or just to
> mailbox/testsuite?

I think just to mailbox - Any error showing up in another testsuite
could probalby just be reduced to a mailbox testcase anyway.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey