[SLUG] All this talk about mail formats!

[Jeffrey Borg <jeffrey@nospam.borgs.net>]

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?
B) there is a imap server to support it?
C) Same thing for pop3!
D) procmail can be patched
E) there isn't any reason to replace sendmail if procmail can worry about
   maildir then (for now)


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

Jeff


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