Re: Maildir question
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:01:06PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> Chris, et al --
>
> ...and then David T-G said...
> %
> % ...and then Chris Green said...
> % %
> % % There seem to be two ways to implement a directory hierarchy in a
> % % maildir environment:-
> %
> % Yep. The "right" way is to have only {cur,new,tmp} dirs in your maildir
> % and no others, even though at least some imapd programs have "enhanced"
> % or "extended" the spec and put more maildirs under a top one.
>
> I forgot to mention that my choice would be something like
>
> home/
> davidtg/
> Mail/
> lists/
> mutt/
> mutt-users/
> mutt-dev/
> nix/
> suse/
> suse/
> suse-linux-e/
> family/
> dad/
> dad/
> dad-boats/
> mom/
> mom/
> mom-ballet/
>
> and so on where you can have a directory structure (instead of the dot
> thing, which is just an imapd way of separating directories) and yet not
> pollute each maildir (above: mutt-users, mutt-dev, suse, suse-linux-e,
> dad, dad-boats, mom, mom-ballet). I *could* have family/dad/ as a
> maildir with dad-boats/ under that, but it's wrong. See
>
> http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
>
> for the full spec.
>
OK, thanks. I have actually ended up with something like the above.
The URL you give does say that *some* other directories can appear in
the Maildir mailbox but they are rather special ones, not 'user' ones.
Mutt seems to cope OK anyway.
--
Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)