[imp] Folders with "." in their Name

Ryan Gallagher ryan at studiesabroad.com
Tue Oct 15 17:15:00 PDT 2002


Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Ryan Gallagher <ryan at studiesabroad.com>:
> 
> > It seems to me that IMP should be aware of the structure of the mailbox,
> > and only rename the leaf node (mailbox) rather than allow you to 
> > manipulate the whole path.  As Outlook/Netscape etc etc behave (even 
> > against a Cyrus backend).
> 
> I disagree; we can't provide drag-and-drop moving sanely, so we need a nice
> way to move things around. This is exactly equivalent to the unix mv
> command, which you also use to rename files...
> 
> -chuck

Yet you provide a nice dropdown for moving mail objects, why should folders be
so different?  I understand that it is a perfectly "valid" way to do it, just
not the friendliest way.

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Ryan T. Gallagher
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