Re: Gnu mail bug

Countach wrote:
> Sorry to be thick, but it's not clear to me why you would pass the 
> result of URLName.getFile() into getFolder().  I would have thought 
> the only thing that is valid to pass to getFolder() is a string that 
> has previously been discovered from calling  getFullName() by 
> recursing the hierarchy. If you've got a URLName, shouldn't you pass 
> it to Store.getFolder(URLName)?
>
> You say you need a way to treat paths that doesn't depend on the 
> leading "/",  but isn't it the Java mail spec itself that says to 
> depend on it? The spec for Folder says the name is relative to the URL 
> passed to the Store, unless it starts with the hierarchy delimiter -- 
> "/" in this case. The IF statement I put in implements that 
> requirement.

OK. I've put the if-statement back in and changed the semantics of 
getFolder(URLName), hopefully this meets the requirements.
-- 
Chris Burdess