[dev] [commits] Horde branch develop updated. ff8350869d97ecdf9876e57d427aa046682fe5c9

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Rui Carneiro <rui.arc at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Luis Felipe Marzagao <
> lfbm.andamentos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Em 12/03/12 05:59, Jan Schneider escreveu:
>>
>>
>>> Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>>
>>>     Fix folder/mailbox usage
>>>>
>>>>    Folders = collection of mailboxes. Example: you don't subscribe to a
>>>>    folder - you subscribe to a mailbox. Keep subfolders usage - this is
>>>>    clearer to me than submailboxes (once you start talking about the
>>>> child
>>>>    of a mailbox, this implies there is a collection of mailboxes anyway).
>>>>
>>>>    I've been trying to clean this up over the last few years, but a new
>>>>    major version is the appropriate place to do these big changes.
>>>>
>>>>    For now, keep the old preference names (e.g. sent_mail_folder) for
>>>> ease
>>>>    in upgrading.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This might be a difference in language terminology, so I'm just
>>> commenting on the German side of things. But to me the difference between
>>> mailbox and folder in natural language usage is: mailbox is used for the
>>> whole account, folder for the mailbox in imap terms. That technically
>>> incorrect, but it's what people actually use.
>>>
>>>  Same thing in pt_BR
>
>
> And pt_PT :)

Obviously, as translators you can do whatever you want.

But in English, mailbox is more correct than folder:

- Although technical, the IMAP RFC (and related RFCs) refer to  
mailboxes, although the Abstract to RFC 3501 agrees that mailbox and  
folder have been used interchangeably in the past.
- You have an inBOX, not an inOLDER.
- In an OS UI, a folder is a container element meant to illustrate a  
tree structure.  A folder does not contain any data itself.
- Wikipedia agrees with me also, so I must be correct :) -  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_box

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]