* Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> [2012-12-30 12:11:22 +0000]: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:59:11AM +0000, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > > These weird Maildirs you describe, are they created by an imap server? > > If so what imap server software are you using? > > > My mail is initially delivered by SMTP (to a postfix server running > locally) and then filtered by a python script at the moment. Thus, if > I switch to maildir just now it's the Python libraries which create > the maildirs. However my issue is more with MUAs which don't play > nicely together using the same maildirs (and also utilities for > manipulating maildirs as they're so painful to manage 'by hand'). >
Ah I see. I was just curious as to why your Maildirs were/are created like that. I recently installed Dovecot just because I want to access the mail from other machine I have at home, and it does create Maildirs with a . prepended, which is Maildir++ format I believe. But this can be changed quite easily with Dovecot imap server software by specifying LAYOUT=fs where the $mail_location setting is in the config file. Self explanatory but makes the Maildir layout nicer for some MUA software. As you're using your own python processing software I'm not sure why your Maildirs would be set-out like that. Jamie. -- Primary Key: 4096R/1D31DC38 2011-12-03 Key Fingerprint: A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38
