Piet --
...and then Piet Delport said...
% On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 at 23:15:44 -0400, David T-G wrote:
% > ...and then Jens Paulus said...
% > % On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:41:18PM +0200, Jens Paulus wrote:
% >
% > % to the mail separation From_ line in mbox format and inserts the
% > % quotation character itself automatically. I wonder if there is a way
% > % to
% >
% > Sure; switch to a mail folder format that doesn't require it. I hear
% > that maildir is good.
%
% I switched over to Maildir a few days ago, because i liked the idea of:
Good for you!
%
% - Not having to worry with locking.
% - One message per file, so less chance of catastrophic corruption.
% Plus, i can go:
% $ grep foo * | xargs rm
% and such to process messages using shell commands. Neat.
Yeah. That's a nice bonus.
% - No From_ quoting or other such hacks involved. In fact, Maildir
% doesn't seem to use From_ lines to begin with.
It sure doesn't; that's an mbox thing.
%
% I can highly recommend Maildir so far. All that was involved in the
% switch was:
%
% 1. Append a `/' to all folder names in my .procmailrc, as in:
% :0:
% * ^Delivered-to: mutt-users@ns\.gbnet\.net
% in.mutt-users/
% This tells procmail to use Maildir.
procmail didn't always understand maildir; IIRC, at around 3.14 someone
wrote a patch to add maildir support, and the next version then supported
it natively. When in doubt, upgrade or at least test.
%
% 2. Add `mbox_type=Maildir' to my muttrc. Not strictly required, as mutt
% will auto-detect a mailbox's type, but mutt will make all new
% mailboxes Maildir now.
Yep.
%
% 3. Migrate my old mailboxes by renaming them to `foo.old', then going
% into them and saving them all back to `foo', creating a Maildir in
% the process. (Is there a more convenient way to do this?)
Heh. Of course!
http://www.qmail.org/mbox2maildir
%
% > % >From heaven to earth.
% > % >From alpha to omega.
% >
% > As expected :-)
%
% Those showed up without >'s here in the original message. :-)
*grin*
%
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% Piet Delport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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