Bill Gribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 02 Aug 2000:
> The problem is that this doesn't seem to work with MH-style mailboxes.
I don't know about that. I don't use MH format folders... I use
Maildir myself, and I've never had any problems with getting the N-flag
right. For mbox-folders, people have reported there being problems too,
although mostly those would be non-Mutt related.
> Does mutt DTRT with Maildir mailboxes? I'm not too familiar with the
> format, but from what I know it has a separate directory for new mail,
> which would make it very easy to put a new-message counter in the
> browser, and would at least make the boolean new-messages flag easier
> to get right.
Mutt won't show a counter, although you're right it should be simple and
also fast to do in the implementation. The boolean flag works right for
me.
> I don't think mailagent has direct support for maildir
> boxes, but if it just means dumping new messages into $box/new then it
> shouldn't be too hard.
In theory, you should be careful to make sure you create unique
filenames. The Maildir spec also specifies that new messages should
first be created in $box/tmp, then linked/moved to $box/new.
There's programs (such as maildircat or something like that) which just
take a message at STDIN and dump it into the specified Maildir folder.
These could be useful if your MDA doesn't do Maildir format natively.
Searching the qmail home page (http://www.qmail.org) should provide
some pointers...
Hope this helps,
Mikko
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