On 08/21/2014 02:59 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 08/20/2014 04:00 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 08/19/2014 09:37 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
The only place that cannot (AFAIK) be in maildir format is the INBOX.
I'm sorry, Linda, that is not the case. My INBOX *is* in maildir format.
And it is in /var/spool/mail??? Does it create a subdir there and put messages in that?
I have INBOX'es in maildir format in e.g. /var/spool/mail/<domain>/<user>/{cur,new,etc.}
works just fine.
Just so long as you are completely consistent and all the MDA, readers etc are configured for that.
There is only one software dealing with it, and that's dovecot. Period.
"Dealing with it"? "Dealing" means what? As I see it sendmail/postfix deals with it; procmail deals with it; spamassassin deals with it; and if you are using Thunderbird to read files rather than a server like dovecot, then Thunderbird deals with it. Excusing the last, they all have to have a consistent view of things. If the MTA/MDA is delivering up the mail in mbox style then dovecot need to access that in mbox style. Similarly with maildir. Now I admit that the way my procmail works I serve the INBOX as maidir and stuff that goes straight to the archives as mbox. But then again I have dovecot configured so that it deals with the INBOX as maidir and ARCHIVES as mbox by means of namespaces. Its all completely consistent. The only thing that stops me letting Thundebird read all this, and yes late-model Thunderbird *can* handle both mbox and maildir, is that Thunderbird is on my workstation and not the mail server. So no, I don't think that "there's only *ONE* software dealing with it". Perhaps, if you don't take the point I'm trying to make here, you'd care to explain the "only one". -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org