MH uses monotonically-increasing small positive integers to number
messages within a folder. Maildir, as I recall, uses large
pseudo-random numbers, or what appear to be pseudo-random numbers.
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> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:24:36AM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
> > Eventually I might replace the mh programs with code from
> > Plan 9 (still leaving the mh disk layout) but I don't expect to
> > do that any time soon.
>
> Personally, I'd rather that wasn't the case. I'd rather see a version of
> the MH utilities (or a subset of the useful ones) that know how to deal with
> Maildir or IMAP (given the discrete nature of the MH commands, the latter
> might be hard and/or slow).
What is the difference between mh's layout and maildir?
I thought they were the same.
Russ
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