-d option fails to explore maildir-format directories

[Ted]

I'm not sure if this is in the maildir spec, but when postfix creates a maildir directory with sub-folders, the folders are stored as "hidden" directories, which are skipped by emailgraph.

For example, this is a section of my maildir:

.[Gmail]
.[Gmail].All Mail
.[Gmail].Drafts
.[Gmail].Sent Mail
.[Gmail].Spam
.[Gmail].Starred
.[Gmail].Trash

These folders contain more mail than my inbox, but they aren't discovered by emailgraph.

[motters (fuzzgun)]

This sounds like more of a feature request. Any file or folder which begins with a full stop will be assumed to be hidden and skipped. Probably an option should be added to include hidden files in the search.

[Ted (tedks)]

I'd argue that it is a bug.

* The behavior of skipping hidden directories isn't mentioned anywhere.
* Programs are inconsistent with their exploration of hidden directories; find (for example) will happily give you all the children of a directory, hidden or no.

Given the above two:

* A very popular mail storage format uses hidden directories extensively.
* A new user could reasonably assume that passing a maildir directory would explore all the subfolders in their maildir hierarchy.

emailgraph violates this reasonable assumption, and only explores the inbox.

emailgraph seems optimized for mbox files; since these are relatively old and falling out of favor, would it make sense to add another option for maildirs that would explore hidden directories and files?

[motters (fuzzgun)]

Ok. This looks easy to fix.

[motters (fuzzgun)]

Fixed in version 1.00

[Ted (tedks)]

Woohoo, thanks!