Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

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> > so why theses programs doen't do a mkdir() inside ?
> 
> Because they don't.  You might as well ask why bash doesn't create
> ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc the first time you run it.

because those files are not needed? ~/.bash_history *is* created.

> Or why every program that uses ~/tmp doesn't create it first.
> 
> You're adding four directories: ~/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp}.

still the same question, why not mkdir them in maildir?

> I don't think it's unrealistic to add.  If nothing else, it's extremely
> simple for a user to remove if they don't want it (rm -rf ~/Maildir).

I don't think it's unrealistic to mkdir them. I have a ~/nsmail which
is created by i-don't-know-which-program, I also have a ~/Mail, a
~/Desktop...

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