Re: maildirmake

2003-06-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:36:17AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why > > do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not > > only capable of storing messages in Maildir folders but also of > > generating them. This

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:34:39AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Debian-Developers, > > first, many thanks all of you for your great work. As I am not a pro, I am > very glad that most of Debian works out-of-the-box. > > But, I was looking around and wondering about that I couldn't fin

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:19:35AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why >> do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not >> only capable of storing messages in Maildir fol

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > My logic was that, from the basic system, Maildir mailboxes are no > > use. > > Can I have a bit of the weed you are smoking? Seems to be good. They're pine needles. I really do need to get off them, they're keeping my brain in the 70's...

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:19:35AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why > do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not > only capable of storing messages in Maildir folders but also of > generating them. This i

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
Am Die, 2003-06-24 um 03.46 schrieb Matthew Palmer: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Now I'm wondering about it even more. IMHO `maildirmake' is _very_ > > necessary for any mail and as it seems to be only a 2-line-shell-script > > why it isn't included anywhere and anyway in

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. > > > Why do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir > > > is not only capable of storing messages in Maildir folders but > > > also of generating them. This includes e.g.

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Sam Clegg
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:45:30AM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why > > do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not > > only capable of storing messages in Ma

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Oliver Kurth
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:45:30AM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why > > do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not > > only capable of storing messages in Ma

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Michael Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 24. Juni 2003 09:45 schrieb Ralf Hildebrandt: > * Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. > > Why do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir > > is not o

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why > do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not > only capable of storing messages in Maildir folders but also of > generating them. This includes e.g. the exim(4)

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:12:04PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > My logic was that, from the basic system, Maildir mailboxes are no > use. Can I have a bit of the weed you are smoking? Seems to be good. Package: mutt Priority: standard `standard' These packages pro

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > But, I was looking around and wondering about that I couldn't find > any `maildirmake' for Debian, excluding qmail-src, courier and > maildrop, which I don't want/don't need to use. [...] You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why do we n

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, David B Harris wrote: > Given how simple it is, makes more sense to have it in one place. I > don't know where it should be (in all the MTAs?), but there you go :) > Well I have one in dovecot but I don't see why it couldn't be in e.g. debianutils. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EM

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread David B Harris
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:12:04 +1000 (EST) Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Capable of handling, yes, but then, so is cat.Once delivered, though, > there's no way of getting it back out again unless you're running something > like courier or similar. Or Mutt, or a halfdozen other MUAs

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread Joel Baker
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:12:04PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, David B Harris wrote: > > > Exim is capable of handling Maildir mailboxes. It's Priority: important. > > I don't know if that counts as "shipping it by default" or not, but I > > would certainly say that it's th

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, David B Harris wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:46:48 +1000 (EST) > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Now I'm wondering about it even more. IMHO `maildirmake' is _very_ > > > necessary for any mail and as it s

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread anobo
Thanks Matthew and David. I think, it is a _strange_ discussion to use mbox or maildir and doesn't lead to an one-and-only solution. > Could you elaborate on your usage of maildirmake in this courier-less situation? I'm using getmail, which is able to deliver directly in maildir and mutt, which c

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread David B Harris
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:46:48 +1000 (EST) Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Now I'm wondering about it even more. IMHO `maildirmake' is _very_ > > necessary for any mail and as it seems to be only a 2-line-shell-script > > why it isn't i

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now I'm wondering about it even more. IMHO `maildirmake' is _very_ > necessary for any mail and as it seems to be only a 2-line-shell-script > why it isn't included anywhere and anyway in the base-system? As I recall, maildirmake is only needed if y