From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 6 22:57:57 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 5386616A402 for ; Sat, 6 May 2006 22:57:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from mail07.powweb.com (mail07.powweb.com [66.152.97.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4A543D45 for ; Sat, 6 May 2006 22:57:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from vixen42.vulpes (24-119-225-24.cpe.cableone.net [24.119.225.24]) by mail07.powweb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B762914DB84; Sat, 6 May 2006 15:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 17:58:38 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox To: soralx@cydem.org Message-ID: <20060506175838.6a3a8308@vixen42.vulpes> In-Reply-To: <200605032159.54532.soralx@cydem.org> References: <200604270217.43493.soralx@cydem.org> <200604272227.09721.soralx@cydem.org> <20060429105604.6cc82966@vixen42.vulpes> <200605032159.54532.soralx@cydem.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org 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: Sat, 06 May 2006 22:57:57 -0000 On Wed, 03 May 2006 21:59:54 -0700 soralx@cydem.org wrote: > > > > 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). On a cool side not check out the maildir plugin for sylpheed-claws. Just got added recently and I have been really loving it. > > 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? Cool. Was not aware that those existed. > > 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. Yeah, it does blow through more inodes, but for what I need I find it to be worth it. I tend to have atleast one open and then occasionally accessing it through squirrelmail. > [...] > > 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 ;) Cool. QMail here. ^_^