On Wednesday 03 of September 2003 09:09, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote:

> I'm (pleasantly) surprised.  How can mail be stored in a directory?
> .maildir is a directory, so there must be a file somewhere that holds
> your inbox mail (/var/spool/...?).

it's very simple :)
maildir = one email per one file.

[pluto]-[~] # ll Maildir/.spam.blns/cur/
drwx------ 2 pluto    ds14  16384 wrz  3 09:22 .
drwx------ 5 pluto    ds14   4096 sie 31 01:54 ..
-rw------- 1 pluto    ds14   4429 wrz  3 08:16 1062569766.22678_2.plus:2,S
-rw------- 1 pluto    ds14   5865 wrz  3 08:18 1062569892.17976_2.plus:2,S
-rw------- 1 pluto    ds14   2448 wrz  3 08:40 1062571250.29382_2.plus:2,S
-rw------- 1 pluto    ds14   6347 wrz  3 09:11 1062573075.15266_2.plus:2,S

[pluto]-[~] # find Maildir/.spam.blns/cur/ | xargs file
Maildir/.spam.blns/cur/:                            directory
Maildir/.spam.blns/cur/1062569766.22678_2.plus:2,S: smtp mail text
Maildir/.spam.blns/cur/1062569892.17976_2.plus:2,S: smtp mail text
Maildir/.spam.blns/cur/1062571250.29382_2.plus:2,S: smtp mail text
Maildir/.spam.blns/cur/1062573075.15266_2.plus:2,S: smtp mail text

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