Am 2005-07-13 10:12:15, schrieb Chris Green:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:23:32AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 12 at 08:31 PM, quoth Chris Green:
> > >For me one of the advantages of mbox is the simplicity of the file and
> > >directory naming
> >
> > For creating new files, you mean? I suppose I can see that.
> >
> I keep 'useful' (to me) mail in a fairly deep hierarchy of directories
> and mailboxes, the additional layers of Maildir just make it that bit
> messier to navigate and manipulate.
It depends, because if you need only localaccess
you can do what you want...
> > grep -r foo ~/Maildir/
>
> That won't work will it? Ah, you're too Linux centred, grep doesn't
> have the -r option on systems such as the Solaris box which is my
> desktop machine at work.
You can have GNU-Grep on Solaris. (I have it on 7 and 10) :-)
> Now I think:-
> grep foo ~/Mail/sentmail
>
> is distinctly simpler than:-
> grep foo ~/Maildir/sentmail/*/*
Right
> Hmm, that's one of my *problems* with Maildir! :-) Having found a
???
> number of possible hits for the string I'm searching for I then have
> to run all those files (with horrible long names) through my editor.
> With mbox if, for example, I find hits in 'sentmail' I just load the
> file 'sentmail' into my editor, much less hassle to my mind.
Greetings
Michelle
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