From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: magnus@therning.org (Magnus Therning)
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:45:18 +0100
Subject: [sup-talk] More maildir
In-Reply-To: <20070913101519.GA22606@die.therning.org>
References: <20070913101519.GA22606@die.therning.org>
Message-ID: <20070913154518.GF22606@die.therning.org>

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:15:19 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>I've attached a patch that adds methods that'll make it easier for sup
>to play nice with other MUAs when using maildir for storage.
>
>Here are some questions:
>
> - What's my Ruby like?  (I hadn't even looked at Ruby just 2 weeks ago
>   so please tell me if I'm doing strange things.)
>
> - The methods names are maildir-centric, any suggestions for better
>   ones?
>
> - The maildir state (the flags) are related to some sup labels
>   ('trashed' is 'deleted' and '!seen' is 'unread').  Is it important to
>   keep them in sync?  (My thinking is no, at least not automatically.
>   The maildir state could be used when finding new mail during sync to
>   set the initial labels.  It would also be nice if state/labels on
>   known messages would sync--I think "read in either => read" and
>   "trashed in either => trashed" is good enough.)
>
>Next steps:
>
> 1. Basically revert the change to Maildir::each I made in another
>    email.  Re-implement it using the methods I introduced here.
> 2. Implement Maildir::delete
> 3. Move the delete method in sup-sync-back into MBox::Loader and modify
>    sup-sync-back.

Patch that uses the new improved maildir methods to add initial labels.

/M

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