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

[Luis Felipe Marzagao]

Em 14/03/12 23:10, Michael M Slusarz escreveu:
> 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.
Good points.
> - Wikipedia agrees with me also, so I must be correct :) - 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_box
>
> michael
>
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