On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:58:42 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:39:52AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > | I prefer to keep the mbox format for these mailboxes, because this > | makes easier for other operations (like grepping or copying them). > > grep -r > cp -r > > How does maildir inhibit those operations?
I haven't said that they were inhibited, I have said that using the mbox format makes things easier. Sometimes, I need an interactive cp. And how can "cp -r" (or "scp -r") remove files from the destination mailbox? Indeed, I sometimes delete messages from mailboxes. > I actually find maildir better for grepping because grep tells me > which file (message) the match was found in. This is true, but in general, I'm interested in several messages (e.g. a thread). When I've found the mailbox containing the files I was searching for, I can use Mutt and the limit function. > Then I can use mutt or vi to view the message directly. (I told exim > to include the mbox From_ line at the beginning of each message, so > in effect I have lots of mbox folders containing one message each in > the maildir folder :-)) In addition, it is easy to limit your grep > to just new messages or old messages as well by choosing to grep > through only the 'new' or 'cur' subdirectory. In my case, all the messages are read. -- Vincent Lef�vre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux Math�matiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
