[Gllug] RE: Mailbox formats, was RedHat

[Stig Brautaset]

* Jonathan Dye <jonathan.dye at automationpartnership.com> spake thus:
> >>From the man page of maildir :
> >" A machine may crash while it is delivering a message.  For both
> >mbox files and mh folders this means that the message will be
> >silently truncated.  Even worse: for mbox format, if the message is
> >truncated in the middle of a line, it will be silently joined to the
> >next message.  The mail transport agent will try again later to
> >deliver the message, but it is unacceptable that a corrupted message
> >should show up at all. In maildir, every message is guaranteed
> >complete upon delivery."
> 
> I keep thinking of changing my mail storage method to maildir but I
> wasn't sure that procmail worked with that OK so I never got around to
> doing it.  Could someone tell me if I can use procmail and if not is
> there an alternative that is just as good.  Or have I got completely
> confused.

procmail supports maildir, just add a '/' after the name of the mailbox
in your .procmailrc (don't confuse the slash with the '/.' postfix that
you use to make procmail give you mh-style mailfolders).

Regards,
Stig

-- 
brautaset.org
Registered Linux User 107343

-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug