[Xesam] Meaning of xesam:url

[Sebastian Trüg]

On Wednesday 06 August 2008 21:33:31 Michael Albinus wrote:
> Sebastian Trüg <strueg-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> writes:
> >> An email is stored usually in a file. A Xesam client might try to
> >> present the email; the file location is necessary then. Therefore, I
> >
> > not true. Emails can be stored on an imap server or, like it will be the
> > case with KDE soon, in some local server. It is actually not very typical
> > anymore to have emails stored in files. And focussing Xesam to only
> > handle stuff from local files means to restrict it majorly.
>
> xesam:url would be an IMAP URL (RFC 5092) then. If it is a local server,
> xesam:url shall be still a valid url, IMHO. Additional information about
> the local server, and how to interpret the url, belong to other fields,
> I believe.

imap is just one example. There can be others. I agree that details belong in 
other fields.