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Re: [bug-mailutils] Skeleton for maildir
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Jeff Bailey |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-mailutils] Skeleton for maildir |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:28:38 -0800 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
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