On 2013-04-16, Tim Gray wrote: > On Apr 16, 2013 at 01:44 PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > >Not difficult. The trouble is that it violates the maildir specification; > >message filenames have a defined format, and ending with ".eml" breaks that > >format, which as you noticed, is used for storing flags (so you don't have to > >rewrite a maildir file just to change the state of a message to "read" or > >"replied" or "important", etc). > > Understood. It's still something I might be interesting in > implementing for personal usage. I'm not overly concerned with > violating maildir specification. > > Besides, how is rewriting the extension any less intensive than > rewriting another part of the file name?
Charles wrote that changing the file extension avoids having to rewrite a _file_, not a file _name_. Regards, Gary
