Re: Bug#152985: offlineimap: Spooling many accounts into one maildir

[Andrew Sayers <andrew-date-2002-07-15@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:44:04AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> This does sound like a good idea.  It should be fairly easy to do in the
> folder/Maildir.py side (just make it ignore messages from a different
> account).  Do you have any suggestions as to how to do this from a
> configuration standpoint?  Should we just have it not complain if two
> different account's mailboxes happen to go to the same place?

Sounds good to me - also, putting in a default mailbox might be more to
some people's tastes.

> 
> One pitfall: when a message is copied into this "shared folder" locally by
> your mail reader, how do we know which account to upload it to?

In the general case, any information that can be encoded in a directory
can just as easily be encoded in a filename.  The problem is going to be
finding information that isn't likely to change - what if someone (say)
swapped the labels on their "personal" and "work" mailboxes?  Probably
the best bet is to put in something like "A=mail.myisp.net", which
probably won't change.

Incidentally, I don't speak Python at all, so I can't help on the
programming side :(

        - Andrew

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