On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:36:17AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why > > do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not > > only capable of storing messages in Maildir folders but also of > > generating them. This includes e.g. the exim(4) MTA, MDAs like > > procmail or maildrop, and the MUA mutt. > > As far as I am aware, maildrop does *not* support creating Maildirs.
Not intrinsically, but it's trivial to hack it, DUMMY=`[ -d mail/maildir ] || maildirmake mail/maildir` > Even if it does support creating top level Maildir (last I tested it > didn't seem to), it doesn't support creating a maildir within a maildir > (this apparently is a bit different, and it used by courier-imap). You > do with with maildirmake (or at least the version I have installed) with > the -f option. DUMMY=`[ -d mail/maildir/.folder ] || maildirmake -f folder mail/maildir` -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.