On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 10:57:03AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 31Dec2012 09:04, Jamie Paul Griffin <ja...@kode5.net> wrote: > | * 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. > [...] > | 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. > > I would expect the maildir naming to be totally under Chris' control. > Mine is. The weird names may be Chris trying to work with something > else, like Dovecot which by default has a fairly horrible filesystem > naming scheme for maildirs. > Yes, the trouble is though that I expect different programs to work the same. I tend to access my mail in different ways with different programs at different times. The only format which all programs seem to 'play nicely' together with is mbox.
-- Chris Green
