Allister, et al --
...and then Allister MacLeod said...
%
% On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:47:24AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
% > 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 believe, however, that mutt can handle anything :-)
%
% Yes, I'm 90% certain that in the process of playing around with
% setting up Courier-IMAP, at one point I had mutt looking directly at
Yep. Commonly done.
% the maildirs on the same host as my imapd. It may have had some
% differences in naming, due to the leading . on the subdirectories.
Probably not, even :-)
%
% Who is in charge of the Maildir spec? The author(s) of qmail? Can
Yep. Dan Bernstein, the guy who designed it.
% anyone point out a good reason why adhering to the "only
% {cur,new,tmp}" rule is important? My favorite would be sort of a
Mostly because that's the spec, and anything outside the spec is
undefined.
I'm sure you can get lots of info on this on the qmail list, which is
archived. I don't know all of the pros and cons.
% compromise between your scheme, David, and Courier-IMAP's.
That does sound nice, but what if you wanted to have a nested maildir
named tmp for all of the mail you had to park for a while, or cur for
your discussion of mongrel dogs? Saying "you can't have those names"
isn't fair to the users, who shouldn't have to know about internals.
HTH & HAND
:-D
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