Re: [bug-mailutils] folder_create() on $HOME/Mail fails with ENOENT in CVS code.

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Joachim Nilsson <address@hidden> wrote:

> > But it effectively disables is_dir method for MH and maildir formats...
> 
> Sorry, I don't follow, what do you mean?  Does the method in
> mailbox/mbox/folder.c:_path_is_scheme() run for the MH and maildir
> formats as well?

There is a feature called 'mailbox format autodetection': if a mailbox
is specified by an absolute file name (as opposed to giving a fully
qualified URL) mailutils tries to detect the format of the mailbox
in question. In order to do so, the library tries each registered
format in turn and calls its `is_scheme' method until one of these
returns true or the list of formats is exhausted. With your patch applied,
autodetection will always end up on 'mbox:' handlers, no matter what
the actual mailbox format is.

Regards,
Sergey