Re: [PATCH] Teach mailsplit about Maildir's

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 21, 2007, 12:55 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705211353180.6410@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070520191821.GF13197@ferdyx.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 20 May 2007, Fernando J. Pereda wrote:

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

FWIW this pine user was me. Yes, I finally bit the bullet and run pine with the maildir patches.

I cannot think of another sane way for any MUA to sort Maildirs.

Ciao, Dscho