On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Jeffrey Borg wrote:
>
> Hi there (yet again)
>
> Now that all of you there have got me interestered in this Maildir format
> for messages I would like to try it out
>
> Of course I need to get some opinions about it first
>
> A) pine can be rebuilt to support it?
Not as such. There are patches for the UW imapd that ships with pine.
This allows pine to talk to the imapd which will read the Maildir/ on
pine's behalf. Pine will still use mbox format to store messages in
local folders.
See http://www.qmail.org for the patches
> B) there is a imap server to support it?
Apart from the patches to UW impad, there is Courier imapd. This IMAP
daemon supports Maildir/ format and will also create sub folders in
Maildir/ format. Works with pine and can be made to work with Netscape
and Outlook (even though both of these do not correctly conform to the
IMAP protocol).
See http://www.qmail.org
> C) Same thing for pop3!
qmail's qmail-pop3d will ONLY support Maildir/ format. It requires
checkpassword for the user authentication and either inetd or
tcpserver (from ucspi-tcp) to handle the network connections.
See http://www.qmail.org
You do NOT need to run qmail to use qmail-pop3d. You just need mail
stored in a Maildir/ in each user's home directory.
> D) procmail can be patched
Apparently yes. I'm not entirely sure. Also look for maildrop, which
supports Maildir/ and safecat
See http://www.qmail.org
> E) there isn't any reason to replace sendmail if procmail can worry about
> maildir then (for now)
Not wishing to start a religous war (honest :), I can think of a
couple of reasons to replace sendmail that have nothing to do with
procmail (or whatever your choice of MDA :)
>
>
> NOW the hardest questions of all
>
> For my laptop mail updating
> at home I just run rsync over the mail directory and it works nicely
>
> BUT when I am away apart from that being a bit slow, it dosen't allow for
> the READ flag to be saved (say I read a message on the laptop then update
> it that message becomes unread again and thus wastes more bandwidth in
> rsync updates)
>
> So what I do is have a extra procmail rule to duplicate all email into
> another mbox file, the rsync update removes this file and the other update
> setup I just gzip it and transfer it to the laptop (via ssh of course :-)
> then run it thru procmail using the formail command. hence producing the
> exact same mail setup on both sides.
>
> when I get back home I usually just quickly in pine just jump to the
> message I read last and view it then hold "p" to mark all previous
> messages as read. then rsync it again.
>
>
> It's this setup that has me worried about using maildirs
For a description of how Maildir/ works, see
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
This should give you clues on what to do with messages that have been
read (ie moved to the ./Maildir/cur directory.
Regards
Peter
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