Jeff McNeil <j...@jmcneil.net> wrote:
> On Sep 25, 3:22 pm, tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote:
> > I can't get the list_folders() method of the mailbox.Maildir class to
> > do anything remotely useful. It seems to do nothing at all. I have a
> > directory which contains a number of maildir malboxes:-
> >
> > chris$ ls -l /home/chris/Mail/apex
> > total 24
> > drwx------ 5 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:45 charles.rustin
> > drwx------ 5 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:45 greg
> > drwx------ 5 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:45 maureenMcgoldrick
> > drwx------ 5 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:45 ram
> > drwx------ 5 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:46 sarahLagley
> > drwx------ 5 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:46 symonSmith
> > chris$ ls -l /home/chris/Mail/apex/ram
> > total 12
> > drwx------ 2 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:45 cur
> > drwx------ 2 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:45 new
> > drwx------ 2 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:45 tmp
> >
> > If I run the following code:-
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/python
> > #
> > #
> > # Mail archiving utility
> > #
> > import mailbox
> >
> > topLevel=mailbox.Maildir("/home/chris/Mail/apex")
> > print topLevel.list_folders()
> >
> > It just outputs "[]".
> >
> > Am I doing something totally wrong or is list_folders() completely broken?
> >
> > --
> > Chris Green
>
> The Maildir++ spec states that folders need to begin with a period.
> The list_folders method enforces that:
>
> def list_folders(self):
> """Return a list of folder names."""
> result = []
> for entry in os.listdir(self._path):
> if len(entry) > 1 and entry[0] == '.' and \
> os.path.isdir(os.path.join(self._path, entry)):
> result.append(entry[1:])
> return result
>
> The above example is from 2.6. Your structure is simply a list of
> Maildir compliant directories below '/home/chris/Mail/apex.' They're
> not, in the Maildir++ sense of the word, folders.
>
So where does it say in the Python documentation that list_folders()
works only with Maildir++? It's a big and non-obvious limitation to
my mind.
My maildir hierarchy is created by mutt which is a *very* standards
compliant MUA, surely standard python libraries should work with
standard maildirs not some wierd extension thereof.
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