Andreas Aardal Hanssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> This is IMHO a little too quick a conclusion. Standard UNIX tools are very
> easy to use with Maildir/, especially considering that no parsing is
> required to seperate emails, and that all flags can be stored in the file
> name of a message, rather than in the content.
>
> To find messages that contain whatever in the subject:
> find . -type f | xargs grep -liE 'subject:.*?hei'
Including messages that contain body lines like the quoted, and except
ones like this:
Subject:
hei
This isn't idle pedantry. Messages are often wrapped if their subjects are
long, partially RFC 2047 encoded or both.
> To delete all messages from Ole:
> find . -type f | xargs grep -liE 'return-path:.*?<ole>' | xargs rm -v
That command deletes 1) your message to the list 2) this reply and 3) some
other messages, but not messages from ole@localhost or from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Both commands are subject to race conditions. On a mail store with a few
gigabytes worth of mail, such commands take a long time, and what
guarantee do you have that noone sets a few flags meanwhile, changing your
file names under your feet? What guarantee do you have that file x still
refers to the same message?
I'm reminded of the Mencken quote: "For every complex problem there is an
answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
> These operations are much much harder with the UNIX spool system. And
> better yet: they're consistent, with no locking required.
Write the same operations _correctly_ for both formats, then compare the
commplicity of the code.
I skipped the rest of your message.
--Arnt
