> Let's consider how TMDA treats a sender confirmation for a message
> which it considers ``Confirmed/Actioned'':
>
>  * TMDA does not deliver the message to the DELIVERY destination as
>    it assumes this had already been done.
>
>  * TMDA auto-responds with something to the effect of ``Thanks, but
>    this message has already been delivered''.
>
> In Maildir terms, ``cur'' holds messages that the MUA has noticed. This
> doesn't mean they have been read. So, if I fire up Mutt on my pending
> Maildir, all messages in ``new'' are moved to ``cur''.
>
> So, the effect would be that TMDA would not deliver any message seen
> by the user's MUA, regardless of later successful confirmation. I'm not
> sure this is behavior the user would expect or want, do you?

Err...  I guess I'm not seeing this question quite the same way you
did.  If the suggestion was "Why not use further directories within
the Maildir like the standard(?) cur, new & tmp?" then wouldn't that
mean basically a reshuffling of directories?

In other words, a message comes in that requires confirmation, and
instead of quarantining it in ~/.tmda/pending, we put it in
~/Maildir/pending.  Once it gets confirmed, we put a copy in
~/Maildir/new and move the ~/Maildir/pending message over to
~/Maildir/confirmed.

If we receive another confirmation, we check against
~/Maildir/confirmed, not ~/Maildir/new or even ~/Maildir/cur.

After all, http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html seems to say that we
can add more directories underneath ~/Maildir.

I think this is a rather valid solution.  ~/.tmda is an appropriate
place to keep all TMDA configuration stuff, but e-mail is e-mail.
Perhaps we should move it around just like MUA's do.

Just my 2�.

Gre7g.

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