[MlMt] Submailbox naming

[John D. Muccigrosso]

On 6 Jul 2016, at 3:51, Philip Paeps wrote:

> On 2016-07-05 18:34:57 (+0530), Benny Kjær Nielsen 
> <mailinglist at freron.com> wrote:
>
>> It's non-trivial (and a bit hardcoded), but the Unread mailbox shows 
>> how it can be done:
>>
>> 	${#source.path.noinbox} — ${#source.#name}
>>
>> The first part is the mailbox name, but without INBOX when it's the 
>> kind of IMAP account in which all mailboxes are children of the 
>> INBOX. The latter is the name of the account as seen in the IMAP 
>> account editor.
>
>
> Note that `${#source.path.noinbox}` only strips the INBOX from 
> children of INBOX, it doesn't become the empty string for INBOX 
> itself.  That's probably a reasonable implementation but it took me a 
> bit of fiddling before I figure out that what I wanted for my setup 
> is:
>
>     ${#source-name:/downcase} ${#source.path.noinbox/INBOX//}
>
> This piece of wisdom may be helpful to others with a similar setup to 
> mine (and similar OCD). :)

So it looks like we’ve got some good examples out there. I wonder if 
we could get a good working set for better documentation and what the 
best way to do that would be. I’m happy to fork the manual on github. 
Would others be able to do that, or perhaps just email to me?

John