Re: maildirmake
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:13:04 -0500
"Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <dman@dman.ddts.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:20:05PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> | "maildrop" is a good package to get "maildirmake" with.
>
> Yes, but maildirmake has some limitations. It won't create the folder
> if any of the parent directories are missing. Because of that I don't
> use it, even though I am now using maildrop. A simpler route is to
> use bash and
> mkdir -p ~/Mail/path/to/folder/{new,cur,tmp}
>
> (a "maildir" is just a directory with "new","cur", and "tmp"
> subdirectories)
Almost correct. Don't forget the permissions on the created directories.
Normal qmail Maildirs are 0700, IIRC. Other apps might not be as picky
about the permissions.
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Jamin W. Collins
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