Re: policy about Qmail's Maildir support?

[Amos Shapira <amos@gezernet.co.il>]

jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks.

> > 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.

Fine with me.
 
> > 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.

I was thinking more of things like IMAPD, qpopper, and the
c-client library, which have patches for maildir support
available for them, they just have to be integrated into the
"official" debian package (e.g. it looks like the procmail support
was taken through the same page which points to the patches
I mentioned - http://qmail.org).

Thanks,

--Amos
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