Re: MailDir vs. mbox (was: Re: vfolders)

2001-07-15 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 07:51:18PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote: 995153880.17759_1.teich 995153880.17760_1.teich 995153880.17761_1.teich Procmail is severely broken in its creation of file names for maildirs. If procmail correctly followed the specification for maildirs,

Re: MailDir vs. mbox (was: Re: vfolders)

2001-07-15 Thread Tim Legant
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:31:44PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 07:51:18PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote: Procmail is severely broken in its creation of file names for maildirs. If procmail correctly followed the specification for maildirs, duplicates would be impossible.

Re: MailDir vs. mbox (was: Re: vfolders)

2001-07-15 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:03:36PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:31:44PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 07:51:18PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote: Procmail is severely broken in its creation of file names for maildirs. If procmail correctly followed the

Re: MailDir vs. mbox (was: Re: vfolders)

2001-07-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Tim Legant« am 2001-07-15 um 14:03:36 -0500 : Okay, so you're writing messages. A unique name has three pieces, separated by dots. On the left is the result of time(). On the right is the result of gethostname(). In the middle is something that doesn't repeat within one

Re: MailDir vs. mbox (was: Re: vfolders)

2001-07-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Magnus Bodin« am 2001-07-15 um 21:38:49 +0200 : I agree however, that the procmail filenames are ugly. How do real maildir filenames look like? In reality, that is - we all heard the spec :) Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to

Re: MailDir vs. mbox (was: Re: vfolders)

2001-07-15 Thread Ben Reser
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 02:03:36PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote: Note the requirement to use the hostname. Note that procmail doesn't. Procmail is broken. Does on mine: _vz.z77T7.titanium [breser@titanium new]$ hostname titanium [breser@titanium new]$ procmail -v procmail v3.14 1999/11/22,

Re: MailDir vs. mbox (was: Re: vfolders)

2001-07-14 Thread Tim Legant
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:42:03AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach »Walt Mankowski« am 2001-07-13 um 19:04:43 -0400 : Maildirs have some neat advantages of their own. For example it's very easy to merge two folders together. I send mail from my laptop, Hmm, dunno, but I find a