On 02Jan2013 07:23, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
| On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 10:57:03AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| > 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.
And earlier:
| Yes, about once a year I switch to maildir because of all its
| 'advantages' and then, after a few days I switch back again because of
| its *disadvantages*! :-) (for me anyway) :-
|
| It doesn't use *real* directories, just long names with . instead of
| /. This means that it's messy/difficult to move mail directories
| around manually (which I do quite frequently).
This bit is _entirely_ an artifact of the other apps. My maildirs are
just plain directories. And I do have a hierachy, though not maildirs
inside other maildirs, only maildirs inside ordinary subdirs.
| The gobbledegook filenames it uses mean that any manual access to
| mail files is fraught with difficulties and using grep is just
| confusing.
Again, I've not been driven to these evil names.
| Not every mail program deals with maildir in the same way (in
| particular some use real directories and others use the . in names
| described above) so if I try and access the hierarchy with other
| programs they don't always play nicely.
Could you enumerate some of these programs for us?
There may be workarounds.
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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Do you get up every day and `go to work'?"
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