Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 01:50:15AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
} On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 08:24:34PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote:
} > Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> writes:
} >
} > >> > 6. It must have a decent expiry system.
} > >>
} > >> You don't need a mailclient to have a decent expiry system if you are
} > >> using Maildir. Since all new mail goes into {MAILBOXNAME}/new and all
} > >> read mail goes into {MAILBOXNAME}/cur, you can use this script to delete
} > >> all read mail over a certain date:
} > >
} > > That's not necessarily true. OfflineIMAP puts all mail in cur.
} >
} > Well, if you were using offlineimap, I would think you would do the
} > script on the imap server rather than the client.
}
} Modifying the backend Maildir behind the IMAP server's back is A Very
} Bad Idea(tm)...
Um, no, actually, it isn't. One of the big wins of maildir is that
concurrent access does not require locking. There is no reason not to
mess with the backend maildir when the IMAP server is running. Indeed, I
can run mutt on the backend maildir, Thunderbird connected via IMAP, and
squirrelmail all concurrently, and everything works just fine.
--Greg
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