* Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> [2012-12-31 10:34:45 +1100]: > On 30Dec2012 12:11, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > | 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. > > Surely then the naming scheme is under your control? > > Like you, I have my own filing program. > > | 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'). > > Could you enumerate some of these? It sounds like we've a quorum of > Maildir hotheads (myself included) who must have encountered many of > your issues and devised workarounds. > > Personally I use mutt to access maildirs directly and direct other MUAs to > use IMAP, and let dovecot do the filesystem access.
I use something very similar: I read the Maildirs directly on my mx server using mutt but use imap from my Mac to the server also using mutt and ssh tunnel; however, I do use procmail in conjunction with Dovecot lda which delivers to and creates Maildirs if they don't exist. I'd be interested to know more about the python methods you guys use though. The Maildirs are created in a normal way though, I've not known or seen delivery programs create Maildirs with the odd naming schemes Chris has described. Jamie -- Primary Key: 4096R/1D31DC38 2011-12-03 Key Fingerprint: A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38
