[sup-talk] More maildir

[William Morgan]

Excerpts from Magnus Therning's message of Thu Sep 13 03:15:19 -0700 2007:
> I've attached a patch that adds methods that'll make it easier for sup
> to play nice with other MUAs when using maildir for storage.

Applied! I merged in the several patches you sent into one revision. "svn
diff -r572:573" should give it to you.

I no longer use Maildir so it's up to you to test it. :)

>  - What's my Ruby like?  (I hadn't even looked at Ruby just 2 weeks
>  ago so please tell me if I'm doing strange things.)

It's great. I made one or two minor tweaks but that's it. (For example,
x = y || 3 instead of x = y ? y : 3).

>  - The methods names are maildir-centric, any suggestions for better
>    ones?

Seems fine to me. The only thing that's going to be globally called is
some kind of delete method.

>  - The maildir state (the flags) are related to some sup labels
>    ('trashed' is 'deleted' and '!seen' is 'unread').  Is it important to
>    keep them in sync?  (My thinking is no, at least not automatically.
>    The maildir state could be used when finding new mail during sync to
>    set the initial labels.  It would also be nice if state/labels on
>    known messages would sync--I think "read in either => read" and
>    "trashed in either => trashed" is good enough.)

This is basically right. Sup interacts with sources in two ways: getting
a new message, and during sup-sync-back, and in both places should
synchronize read/unread and deleted/undeleted flags. (Actually
sup-sync-back doesn't even do read/unread for mbox yet.) Other flags are
left alone, except we kindly allow you to delete spam messages as well.

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>