Re: [PATCH] Teach mailsplit about Maildir's

From: Fernando J. Pereda <ferdy@ferdyx.org>
Date: May 20, 2007, 19:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20070520191821.GF13197@ferdyx.org>
In-Reply-To: <200705202053.32291.johan@herland.net>

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:53:32PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:

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> I use KMail with Maildir for all my mail, except for my "patches" mail folder 
> where I copy patches to import into my repos (which is in mbox format). 
> KMail makes it easy to mix mbox and Maildir folders, so it's not really a 
> big deal for me, but I would of course prefer Maildir support if it's 
> possible to get it right.
> 
> Not sure how I feel about the usefulness of the patch if it requires correct 
> sorting, and most mail clients turn out to _not_ sort correctly. Of course 
> I have no idea what most mail clients do, but KMail seems to get it about 
> right, AFAICS (mail filename starts with timestamp, so they're at least 
> sorted roughly on (arrival) date).

[ I sent this only to Johan, re-sending to the rest of the people now. Sorry Johan for the dupe ]

I discussed this with a pine user in #git and we concluded (looking at the respective code) that both Mutt and Pine generate correct filenames based on when that mail arrived to the Maildir.

I use Mutt, and to test it I picked a thread that didn't arrive in order, tagged and copied it to a different Maildir, patches were splitted in correct order.

- ferdy

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