notmuch-emacs: Fcc to top-level directory given by database.path

[Mark Walters]

Hi

On Sun, 01 Oct 2017, Arun Isaac <arunisaac at systemreboot.net> wrote:
> Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Incidentally, I think "/" is an alternative for the fcc line which
>> already works, which is "\"/\" in notmuch-fcc-dirs.
>
> Perhaps, notmuch should be made to tolerate a "/" at the beginning of the
> Fcc folder argument. That is, notmuch should not complain about absolute
> paths, and it should interpret these as relative to the root. To
> maintain backward compatibility, we could add a "/" at the beginning if
> it is not already there.
>
> So,
>
> "/" => database.path
> "/sent" => database.path/sent
> "sent" => database.path/sent
>
> etc.
>
> Is this a better idea?

The reason for the warning is that this behaviour is completely
different from what you would get with normal file fcc. Given that, I am
a little reluctant to drop the warning.

Best wishes

Mark