On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:42:03AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> So sprach »Walt Mankowski« am 2001-07-13 um 19:04:43 -0400 :
> > Maildirs have some neat advantages of their own. For example it's
> > very easy to merge two folders together. I send mail from my laptop,
>
> Hmm, dunno, but I find a cat old_mbox >> current_mbox also quite easy.
> Dunno how maildir names the files, but if it's just a semi "random"
> (increasing numbers count like this as well) name,
It's not.
> Okay, I just tested. Using procmail, I end up with files named like
> this:
>
> 995153880.17759_1.teich
> 995153880.17760_1.teich
> 995153880.17761_1.teich
> ....
Procmail is severely broken in its creation of file names for maildirs.
If procmail correctly followed the specification for maildirs,
duplicates would be impossible.
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
> So a simple copy will also create dupes. No gain here.
No. Only broken procmail creates dupes.
Procmail users should consider using something like 'safecat' to deliver
mail rather than the built-in delivery mechanism.
Tim
