Re: [bug-mailutils] maildir patch (based on 0.4)

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> Alain Magloire <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I'll let Sergey handle the patch, since I'm not that familiar with maildir 
> > format.
> 
> Yep, I'll handle this.
> 
> > - Could it be possible to make the maildir functions accessible ?
> >   In the long run I'm hoping to make this layer also accessible, for
> >   example for mailutils library users that __only__ want to manipulate
> >   the maildir format and not via mailbox_t functions
> 
> Interesting. Any details, please?
> 

Well mailbox_t, message_t etc ... are great, since you can transparently
deal with all sort of mailbox formats within your application just by
reseting the URL.

But in many cases, I found myself not needing this framework at all
and sometimes even worst I want to access some specific behaviour of the
Protocol/format and simply can not.


For example,  I want to quickly write a popdownload client for some reason
and want to do this via the TOP command,  mailbox_t will not let me do this.
And I'm back to square one, the library useless to me.

Now we can, there is a lower level, mailbox/pop/pop3_*.c functions
which covers the POP3 protocol.  There is(will be) also an "adapter"
that converts the lower calls to mailbox_t.

I think this is a flaw in the library, where we forced every one to
be in the same mold without alternatives.