[sylpheed:37343] Re: Filter rules not working for accounts with a space in the name

[k0 at trixtar.org]

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 14:57:35 +0300
Anton Shepelev <anton.txt at gmail.com> :

> Craig to Anton Shepelev:
> 
> > > When [I] tried to create a filter rule to move some
> > > messages to:
> > >
> > >    #imap/Insomnia 24/7/INBOX
> > >
> > > Sylpheed refused to save it, saying the target folder
> > > did not exist. It worked after renamed the account to
> > > "Insomnia" .
> >
> > I use Linux, which dislikes spaces in names, so I avoid
> > those on the entire file system.

Completely agree!  Fully qualified paths can be shorter too with no
spaces seeing that not only the spaces but the enclosing quotes are a
form of BLOAT and bit-pollution.


> And I plumb hate paths and filenames with spaces, but I did
> not know Syplpheed literally translated account names into
> paths, without any automatic escaping.
> 
> I don't object to spaces in the names of Sylpheed accounts,
> but I never use them in the names of IMAP folders.
> 
> > In your case I would have made the directory
> > #imap/Insomnia.24/7/inbox
> 
> That's hardly impossible: the standard IMAP structure has
> INBOX at the top level.  Insomnia.247 is good, however, but
> I have decided on simply Insomnia.
>