From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johan Herland Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach mailsplit about Maildir's Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 21:27:17 +0200 Message-ID: <200705202127.17723.johan@herland.net> References: <20070520181447.GA10638@ferdyx.org> <200705202053.32291.johan@herland.net> <20070520191821.GF13197@ferdyx.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: "Fernando J. Pereda" , Junio C Hamano To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun May 20 21:27:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hpr4F-0003d2-AR for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 21:27:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755859AbXETT1l (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 15:27:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755929AbXETT1l (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 15:27:41 -0400 Received: from smtp.getmail.no ([84.208.20.33]:64544 "EHLO smtp.getmail.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755859AbXETT1k (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 May 2007 15:27:40 -0400 Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no by no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) id <0JIC00G1NU235F00@no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 21:27:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.getmail.no ([10.5.16.1]) by no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JIC00I7SU1I9L40@no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 21:27:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alpha.herland ([84.210.6.167]) by no-osl-m323-srv-009-z1.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JIC001D8U1IT3B0@no-osl-m323-srv-009-z1.isp.get.no> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 21:27:18 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <20070520191821.GF13197@ferdyx.org> Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sunday 20 May 2007, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:53:32PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote: > > 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, www.herland.net