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Re: switching from mbox to maildir in mutt, exim, etc.: how?



On 10/29/06 11:38, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:24:26PM -0500, Russell L. Harris
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 03:25:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> <snip>
>> There is much confusion concerning Procmail recipes among those
>> who have written Procmail HOWTOs, so beware!  You do NOT need
>> to create a ".forward" file.  The quickest and easiest way to 
>> understand Procmail recipes is to print out the man pages
>> PROCMAIL, PROCMAILRC, and PROCMAILEX. Note the distinction
>> between "TO" and "TO_", and note that, with maildir, you do NOT
>> need locking (via ":") in the procmail recipes.  Note that,
>> typically, you need to escape only the "." in
> 
> Hi Russell, I have mail files like:
> 
> Mail/floss/debian.user
> 
> and if I change to maildir, I think it would become:
> 
> Maildir/floss.debian.user

Maildir/.floss.debian.user

> which if I understand it would be like:
> 
> Mail/floss/debian/user
> 
> so how do I avoid that or how should I alter the name
> "debian.user"? Maybe debian-user? Cheers, Kev

Sure.  debian-user or debian_user.  Or, even, debian/user.  In case
you subscribe to other Debian lists.

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