On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:12:04PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, David B Harris wrote: > > > Exim is capable of handling Maildir mailboxes. It's Priority: important. > > I don't know if that counts as "shipping it by default" or not, but I > > would certainly say that it's the closest thing around. > > Capable of handling, yes, but then, so is cat. <g> Once delivered, though, > there's no way of getting it back out again unless you're running something > like courier or similar. Or most modern local MUAs... after all, most folks don't read their mbox with cat, either (though it's equally possible). > My logic was that, from the basic system, Maildir mailboxes are no use. > Things like courier make Maildir useful, so that's where the maildirmake > script should live. It *might* make sense to put it in exim where people > can run it to make their mailboxes, but since the delivery is useless > without other programs to post-process, I'm still not won over on the > idea... It is, to within a close order, as useful as mbox mail delivery; however, it probably isn't worthy of it's own package, and having multiple MTAs (or MUAs) provide it makes little sense, really... perhaps it belongs in one of the "general utility" packages? -- Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org>
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