On Sun 24/Jul/2016 00:12:34 +0200 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Lindsay Haisley writes: >> On Sat, 2016-07-23 at 13:29 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: >>> In this case, I think that "MUA" simply means "the process that's >>> reading the mail dir." In particular, it refers to Dovecot in the >>> same paragraph. >> >> Well you may be right, except that "mail user agent" in that paragraph >> is a link to a Wikipedia article which is pretty specific that the term >> refers to an "email client" or "email reader".
Agreed. The paragraph "When the mail user agent process finds messages in the /new/ directory [...]" was added on 14 October 2005. It uses wrong terms. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maildir&diff=next&oldid=68789841 > I would agree that "MUA" refers to anything that reads a maildir, in the most > liberal interpretation. Hmm... it's bad to use the same name for different things. I changed MUA to "maildir reading process". (I don't think we need a specific name for such kind of things.) However, the sentence became obviously false after that change. So I also alleviated the duty of a maildir reader by s/moves/may move/. The sentence now reads: When a maildir reading process finds messages in the /new/ directory it may move them to /cur/ For example, consider rsync building a backup archive of a maildir. It is obviously a maildir reader, clearly not an MUA. I'd say it shouldn't read tmp, but I don't think it should move new to cur. OTOH, MUAs display unread mail subjects in bold irrespectively of the directory they're in. What's the purpose of having new and cur, then? Ale -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
