Re: [PATCH] Teach mailsplit about Maildir's

On Sunday 20 May 2007, Fernando J. Pereda wrote:

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:53:32PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:

quoted

I use KMail with Maildir for all my mail, except for my "patches" mail folder 
where I copy patches to import into my repos (which is in mbox format). 
KMail makes it easy to mix mbox and Maildir folders, so it's not really a 
big deal for me, but I would of course prefer Maildir support if it's 
possible to get it right.

Not sure how I feel about the usefulness of the patch if it requires correct 
sorting, and most mail clients turn out to _not_ sort correctly. Of course 
I have no idea what most mail clients do, but KMail seems to get it about 
right, AFAICS (mail filename starts with timestamp, so they're at least 
sorted roughly on (arrival) date).

[ I sent this only to Johan, re-sending to the rest of the people now.
Sorry Johan for the dupe ]

I discussed this with a pine user in #git and we concluded (looking at
the respective code) that both Mutt and Pine generate correct filenames
based on when that mail arrived to the Maildir.

I use Mutt, and to test it I picked a thread that didn't arrive in
order, tagged and copied it to a different Maildir, patches were
splitted in correct order.

Well, if Mutt, Pine, and KMail all get it right, then it looks like a 
useful feature to add.

Does anybody now of (current versions of) mail clients that do _not_ 
get this right?


-- 
Johan Herland, [off-list ref]
www.herland.net