On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 23:52 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > Dovecot only sees the INBOX* folders. Under these constraints I'm > safe, am I not? Also, since all the file names are created by > procmail (there is nobody else injecting email from the outside) I can > count on them being always unique, right?
Right. > > mv, rm and ln are always safe. Just don't ever write to new mail files > > in new/ or cur/ directory, because then Dovecot might read partially > > written files. That means that "cp file new/" isn't safe, but "ln file > > new/" is. > > Er.. sorry, what do you mean exactly here? where is "file" where I > link to new? Whatever file. :) > What is the complete, exact sequence of Unix commands to > safely go from: > > aux_maildir_1/new/some_file > > to, say, > > INBOX.one/new/some_file If you want to move, then it's simply mv aux_maildir_1/new/some_file INBOX.one/new/some_file The important thing is that you don't use "cp".
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