Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 21:59:54 -0700 From: soralx@cydem.org To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KMail to mbox Message-ID: <200605032159.54532.soralx@cydem.org> In-Reply-To: <20060429105604.6cc82966@vixen42.vulpes> References: <200604270217.43493.soralx@cydem.org> <200604272227.09721.soralx@cydem.org> <20060429105604.6cc82966@vixen42.vulpes>
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> > 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
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