Lindsay Haisley writes:
On Mon, 2016-07-25 at 06:22 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> new/cur split was meant to be merely a means to identify messages that
were
> seen for the very first time. Nothing more than the means to notify the
user
> "you have X new messages". This is not the
On Mon, 2016-07-25 at 06:22 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Alessandro Vesely writes:
>
> > What is still missing is the purpose. I grasp that MRAs and MUAs have a
> > duty
> > which rsync is relieved of, but why? (A similar duty is to delete any old
> > file
> > left behind in tmp. This is
On Mon, 2016-07-25 at 09:43 +0200, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> What is still missing is the purpose. I grasp that MRAs and MUAs have a duty
> which rsync is relieved of, but why? (A similar duty is to delete any old
> file
> left behind in tmp. This is just housekeeping which any process can
Alessandro Vesely writes:
What is still missing is the purpose. I grasp that MRAs and MUAs have a duty
which rsync is relieved of, but why? (A similar duty is to delete any old
file
left behind in tmp. This is just housekeeping which any process can do.)
Rather than classifying maildir
On Sun 24/Jul/2016 16:19:40 +0200 Lindsay Haisley wrote:
>>>
>>> rsync doesn't qualify as a "mail retrieval agent".
It can be used to retrieve mail, despite its missing qualifications. And it
must skip tmp, lest fetch rubbish. So there is a class of maildir readers
which are neither mail
