Re: maildirmake
On 2004-01-15 14:38:14 -0500, Mike Mueller wrote:
> On Thursday 15 January 2004 02:23, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > SO, if you do:
> > touch /home/$USER/mail/debian-user
> > you have made a mbox
Yes.
> > if you do:
> > mkdir /home/$USER/mail/debian-user
> > you have made a maildir
Not all applications will recognize a maildir. Mutt doesn't (and I think
that it's better like that).
> mbox is a file with each message being an entry into the file
> (there's some sort of index into the file?),
No index, but a "From " line as a separator and the Content-Length
optional header to indicate the message length.
> maildir is a directory system with each mail being a file. (No day
> is a waste when you learn something.)
>
> procmail must create the /tmp, /cur, /new subdirs.
Yes, according to the man page, it does (or at least tries to create
them).
> Upon installing getmail there was a configuration message basically
> saying getmail doesn't support mbox and that mbox is fraught with
> peril, and so began my exposure to maildir.
Yes, getmail supported the mbox format in the past, but there were too
many problems with it (mainly related to locking mechanisms). So, this
format was dropped and I switched to maildir when I upgraded.
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