Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:32:09 -0500 From: Louis Theran <k@yt.to> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wanted: mail-filter capable of the maildir-format Message-ID: <19971207163209.00084@yt.to> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971208123941.22686A-100000@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk>; from Aled Treharne on Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 12:44:17PM %2B0000 References: <19971206184553.58471@paert.tse-online.de> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971208123941.22686A-100000@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk>
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On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 12:44:17PM +0000, Aled Treharne wrote:
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> On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, A. Braukmann wrote:
> > after having browsed through different information source regarding
> > the ${subject} I have to ask here:
> > Does anybody knows of a mail-filter that is able to deliver directly
> > to 'maildir'-mailfolders?
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> procmail (v3.11pre7) supports the maildir format, so long as you have
> your mail in maildir formats in the first place.
No it doesn't. There is a patch for Maildir support on
http://www.qmail.org, though. If you don't want to recompile procmail,
there are also several maildir delivery programs floating around that you
can use from procmail. There are advantages and disadvantages to both of
these approaches.
> On this not, does anyone know of an easy way of changing normal (?)
> mailboxes into maildir format? At the mo' I have to save the mail to a
> temp folder, delete the old folder, create the new maildir directories
> (cur,new,tmp..etc) and then save the mail to the new maildir folder. It's
> a real pain, even with Pine's select (;) command. We would like to change
> all of our users accross to maildir format, but it's just too much
> hassle.
I'm not sure that there is an easy way, although you could certainly write a
script. Delivering new mail to Maildirs is fairly trivial, but for old mail
you would have to look at the status lines added by the MUA in order to
figure out what suffix to use on the files in Maildir/cur. See
ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/proto/maildir.html for more information.
> > 'maildir' is a newer mailfolder-format supported for example by
> > qmail (MTA) and mutt (MUA).
There's no reason why you couldn't use Maildir with sendmail, although I
don't know anybody who is.
^L
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