From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 8 13:35:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA15226 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:35:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ren.camb.opengroup.org (ren.camb.opengroup.org [130.105.3.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA15133 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:34:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from k@yt.to) Received: (qmail 22153 invoked by uid 12573); 7 Dec 1997 21:32:09 -0000 Message-ID: <19971207163209.00084@yt.to> Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:32:09 -0500 From: Louis Theran To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wanted: mail-filter capable of the maildir-format References: <19971206184553.58471@paert.tse-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Aled Treharne on Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 12:44:17PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 12:44:17PM +0000, Aled Treharne wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > 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? > > 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 -- Louis Theran a.k.a. User K -- Carjacker on the Information Superhighway "Off the record. On the QT. And very Hush-Hush."