Re: Rework of mbox provider

> In which case it is not the same store.


If I access the exact same "store" both on a local Unix machine, and 
also via a Windows machine over a Samba mount, why is it not the same 
"store"?

>> No good. The getURLName function returns the absolute pathname of the 
>> mbox where it happens to be mounted on this particular machine at 
>> this particular time.  The getFullName function on the other hand is 
>> meant to return the name of the folder RELATIVE to the root of the 
>> hierarchy. This is the string that could be potentially be platform 
>> independent if it was so designed.
>
>
> You're partially right, but getURLName should also yield a pathname 
> relative to the root of the hierarchy. Neither of these is currently 
> the case with the mbox folder, but I will correct both.


I don't think this is correct.  If you look at the Java code for the 
Folder class, you can see that the URL returned is very clearly an 
absolute URL, not a relative URL. In fact, I'm not even sure if the 
URLName class supports constructing relative URLs according to the RFC 
1808 standard. Relative URLs aren't even really URLs as such.