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Re: what is the correct format to specify a new mailbox?



On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:02:53PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Will Yardley <mutt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > or just configure your LDA (or mutt) to deliver and / or save to
> > Maildirs, and the mailbox will be created for you.
> 
> Note that many (most?) maildir-aware delivery agents do /not/ create a
> maildir if it is missing, so this may not be appropriate advice in all
> cases.

Which don't? Procmail does, as does Postfix's builtin LDA (local(8)).

I haven't used maildrop, so can't comment on that, and can't recall
about Qmail / Courier-MTA.

w