Todd at NM Technet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> howdy,
>
> sorry to disappoint, but i don't have any patches to distribute on this.
> most of the fixes were the result of extremely unscientific 'mucking' that
> i would probably not want to distribute (for example, at one point i
> deleted the mbox driver from the source tree entirely to get the Maildir
> used, even though the Maildir driver was specified as higher precedence).
>
> even in the 'fixed' state, the behavior is still sub-optimal (each Maildir
> shows up as both a folder and a folder of folders in all of the clients
> i've tried--some special exclusions of 'new', 'cur', and 'tmp' would need
> to be written to change this behavior.
Okay. You don't have a fully working patch yet. Nooo problem. I have way too
much experience patching systems that I didn't fully understand. :-) I'd
still appreciate getting my hands on you work, as it would give me a
starting point. I understand that you don't want to release it as a "patch"
because it's really now just a "hack". But perhaps you could release it with
a proviso that this is not a real solution to the problem? And if not to the
list, could you send me a copy so I can try to develop a real production
patch? I'd appreciate it.
> as far as i can tell, this issue simply wont get fixed properly until mark
> crispin (of UW) decides he can stop hating DJB long enough to formally
> incorporate the Maildir driver (i really dispise technical decisions made
> on personality grounds).
Oh, I didn't know. That's sad.
> so, in short: no patches here. just ill-conceived hacking that mostly
> works but would be trouble for anyone else.
>
> sorry,
>
>
> todd underwood
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
- David Harris
Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services
