Kyle thanks! you are really a great person! On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Kyle Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday, June 14 at 08:34 PM, quoth Awflasher(GuoQirui): >>But then, I cannot even send anything now. It told me that: >> >> /root/sent is not a mailbox >> >>But why? What's a "mailbox" ? Can anyone give me some tips? Thanks >>very much in advance! > > A mailbox is a place to store messages, and mutt can understand four > types of mailbox: mbox, maildir, MMDF, and MH. Each kind of mailbox is > structured in a specific way to facilitate the operations that you > want mailboxes to perform (i.e. delivering new messages and reading > random messages). By "facilitate", I mean that in most cases the > internal structure is absolutely required in order to avoid corrupting > messages. > > A plain empty folder is NOT a valid mailbox. > > If you're curious, I'll explain the types of mailboxes that mutt > supports. > > An mbox is a flat text file. There are requirements on the contents of > the file and the format of the messages so that each message can be > safely distinguished from the others. Message tags (e.g. "replied", > "new", "seen", etc.) require modifying the content of the message. > > An MMDF mailbox is similar to an mbox, but has different methods of > distinguishing distinct messages. Again, tagging a message requires > modifying the content of the message. > > An MH mailbox is a folder containing email messages in separate files. > This solves several problems associated with mbox, but adds different > ones. For example, in order to prevent concurrent message deliveries > from writing to the same file, a special non-message file is stored in > the directory with the name ".mh_sequences" which has a special > internal format. Again, tagging a message requires modifying the > content of the message. > > A Maildir mailbox is like an MH mailbox, but has a unique way of > delivery that makes unique filenames easier to generate without > locking. Its structure is a folder containing three sub-folders with > specific names (i.e. "cur", "new", and "tmp"). Message tags in a > Maildir are appended to the message's filename. > > ~Kyle > - -- > ...wherever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with > their own government. > -- Thomas Jefferson > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Thank you for using encryption! > > iEYEARECAAYFAkhT4MAACgkQBkIOoMqOI16rDQCdEWDTjzA9jevSKFQK4s7bUcn5 > TUEAoIX5pkFwv3vxRLCHDapPRMYUFBv0 > =lgOb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
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