From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 4 05:01:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B9B716A402 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 05:01:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd5mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F7E43D46 for ; Thu, 4 May 2006 05:01:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.8]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IYQ00LBD5VV0RD0@l-daemon> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 22:59:55 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IYQ00J1Y5VVVAE0@pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 22:59:55 -0600 (MDT) Received: from soralx.cydem.org ([24.87.27.3]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IYQ0032F5VU8O30@l-daemon> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 22:59:55 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 21:59:54 -0700 From: soralx@cydem.org In-reply-to: <20060429105604.6cc82966@vixen42.vulpes> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-id: <200605032159.54532.soralx@cydem.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200604270217.43493.soralx@cydem.org> <200604272227.09721.soralx@cydem.org> <20060429105604.6cc82966@vixen42.vulpes> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Subject: Re: KMail to mbox X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 05:01:16 -0000 > > The complication is that the filthy KMail saves message flags in > > some 'index' files (instead of in message headers). All I want to > > do really is to convert these into any standard format, such as > > mbox (what's evil about it, BTW?) for use with some normal mail > > client (Sylpheed probably). > > Message flags? What do you mean by this? As in if it has been read or > not? yes, status flags like 'read', 'replied', 'important', etc > If that is the case, there is no actual method outside of > maildir for this. In maildir a message is new if it has is in the new > directory. Upon reading it should be moved to the cur directory. what about 'Status: ' and 'X-Status: ' in headers? > Mbox is fine till it starts getting large. It is easily corrupted. It > requires locking and the like. More than one program can not safely > access it. MH solves these a bit, but maildir fixes them completely. never had a problem with this; after all, I always use only single mail client at one time, so it seems that maildir won't be of any advantage in my case -- on the contrary, filling the FS with extra 10000 files won't do any good. [...] > You may not notice how nice maildir till you admin your first mail > server. This is especially true if you have dialup customers and are > using sendmail. If you are using webmail you are even more screwed > with mbox. thanx for the info, but I prefer Postfix ;) Timestamp: 0x44598856 [SorAlx] http://cydem.org.ua/ ridin' VN1500-B2