Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu> writes: > On Thu, 09 Jan 2014, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote: > > I strongly disagree with requiring the cur/new component. The cur/new > directory is an internal implementation detail of Maildir (and a rather > broken one at that) and no more a part of the "folder" of a piece of > mail than its final file name component. It's also the less obvious > user interface; if we require the cur/new component, we *will* get > people asking why their folder searches aren't working, but if we strip > the cur/new component, nobody will be surprised. > My gut instinct agrees with Austin here, at least for a prefix named "folder". Some factors I remember - are there some corner cases for people not using Maildir? - isn't there some information encoded in whether a message is in cur or new? there was some discussion of mutt presenting this information d