On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:22:30PM +0100, Neil Moore wrote:

> I am considering writing some scripts to move all messages from one
> folder to another, and to empty folders in maildirs, both using the
> the filesystem (eg. rm and mv commands).
> 
> When I began to investigate this I see that there are more files in
> directories than there are emails (at least in the inbox). I think
> that the "S" suffix means that the emails are read and current, but I'm
> interested to find out what the "ST", "RST", etc. suffixes mean.

http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html

> Could anyone explain this, and tell me if i can empty a mailbox by
> simply removing all the files, and move the contents of a mailbox by
> moving all the files?

Yes.

-- 
Anand Buddhdev
Celtel International


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