Re: Maildir question
Sergei Kolobov <lists-mutt-users@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2003-11-26 at 08:18 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > djb has stated that the above is a complete list of what a maildir may
> > contain; nothing else is allowed.
>
> Do you have a reference, by any chance?
> I would be interested to see that statement...
Hmmm, not in a public archive. Here's the reply from djb when Chris
specifically asked for clarification on this point after discussing it with
me:
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@xxxxxxxx>
To: Chris Garrigues <cwg-dated-1046893610.066f6a@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Charles Cazabon <bikini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Clarification on Maildir spec
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Chris Garrigues writes:
> Are those four items a exhaustive list of other things that may be in
> the Maildir?
Yes. The list can be extended but is global.
---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
> > I investigated this at some length when creating the example
> > implementation of the BikINI protocol server (now in mothballs).
>
> Are you saying it is not worked on anymore? What happened? The concept
> looked good to me... :(
The protocol was mostly spec'ed and the example server worked fine. I wrote a
trivial example client to test it with, but the other promised client
implementations didn't show up, so I never had anything else to test it with
-- and I lacked sufficient time to hack mutt to support the protocol. So
until someone else does some client work, or I get a lot of free time, the
project sits dormant, I guess.
Charles
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