Kristina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Which MUA's are not compatible with the Maildir format?
Stephen Mills mentioned pine, elm, mutt and mew. He missed pgnus, and
maybe other MUAs.
But "MUA support of Maildir" can mean two things. It can mean that the
mailer allows _folders_ to be maildirs, or it can mean that the mailer
allows _spools_ to be maildirs. AFAICT all mailers (except possibly
mutt) take the latter approach. They receive mail _from_ maildirs _into_
their native folders.
FWIW, Dan once argued that maildirs are good as spools, but not great as
folders. He suggested that a folder be a single file, with each message
compressed separately, plus an index file locating the start of each
message. It's a pretty good suggestion. Does any mailer support anything
like this?
On the other hand, I have thought maildir a _good_ folder format; it
tolerates asynchronous updates very well. In the past my practice involved
1) mail incorporated asynchronously, 2) me using an emacs MUA, and 3) me
using a CLI from home, possibly with emacs still running at work.
The only format flexible and resilient enough for all that is mh-mail.
Does anyone know something better?
Len.
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