Re: Email addresses with spaces
on 05-30-2008, Michael Kjorling wrote:
> On 30 May 2008 10:03 -0400, by ckern1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Clayton Scott Kern):
> > tha spaces with underscores. Thus, it's procmail that's creating the
> > From_ line with the spaces, so that gives me a place to start. I'll see
> > what I can do to have procmail either properly quote the return address
> > or keep the underscores provided by getmail. Another option is to look
> > at maildrop.
>
> Yet another option would be to use a mail store that does not use the
> mbox From_ lines, such as mh or maildir.
>
> I know for a fact that using maildir works very well, with the caveat
> that it uses a lot of small files (due to its design).
>
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>
Changing to maildir is an idea.
I use to use nmh, with exmh as the front-end. As you said, there's alot
of files and I use to be a packrat.
Lots of ideas to mull over.
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Clayton Scott Kern
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