Re: policy about Qmail's Maildir support?
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 09:43:08AM +0300, Amos Shapira wrote:
> Looking for support for Qmail's maildir format in Debian packages, I came
> up with empty hands.
Look more closely. Mutt handles maildir.
> Would it be possible to add this to the debian policy to have Maildir
> support in packages like mailx, pine and imapd?
AFAIK there is no DFSG-free MTA that supports Maildir. Therefore I don't
think that Maildir support should be obligatory via Debian policy.
I think we should encourage maintainers to add Maildir support to
mail-related packages, but this should be a suggestion, not an obligation
under Debian policy.
> Is there another mechanism to make debian support this format?
I vaguely recall that procmail has some support for it; if that's the case,
I think it should be fairly easy to have a "formail" script to convert to
mbox or mh format; that could serve as a temporary form of support.
Ray
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