Re: [users] Maildir protocaol spec?

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

also sprach Eugene van Zyl (on Tue, 22 May 2001 12:50:47PM +0200):
> Where can I get a document describing the maildir format? The short
> page on Dan Bernstein's site is informative but I doubt complete, I
> can figure out how to read and mark messages to ./cur from ./new but
> nought is said about ./tmp and mention is made of the maildir
> writing algorythm?

what do you need to know precisely? i have taken maildir apart in
many senses and can probably answer you. for instance, marking
messages as read is done by moving the file from new to cur, and
*then* to rename it to *:2,S

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