> "Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Raul> Use quoted-printable.
Ok, I didn't realize that quoted printable coped with this. My
experimentation shows that a line starting with From is turned into
"=46rom" (using mutt). Not very readable to a human reader, but at
least any
> "Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Raul> Also note that mbox format need not be lossy -- MDA should
> Raul> quote with > any line matching regexp "^>*From ", MUA should
> Raul> always remove one level of quoting at display time. Any
> Raul> software not follo
> "Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Raul> [I know this thread is old.]
Raul> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:31:58AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
>> I'm interested in performance differences. A big flaw of the
>> mbox format is that every byte of the file must be read
[I know this thread is old.]
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:31:58AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> I'm interested in performance differences. A big flaw of the mbox
> format is that every byte of the file must be read to extract headers
> of the messages .. i.e. display a list of the messages without
>
Hi,
I am not sure this is a good timing for this to be a policy
proposal. Please read on to see why I think so.
>>"Cesar" == Cesar Eduardo Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Cesar> Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default.
[ Snip reasons for why this is not a goo
According to Anthony Towns:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:51:05PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > >(it usually is not, and it definitely is not for
> > >tipical POP servers).
> > Still, deleting messages from a mbox-style mailbox means copying
> > the entire mailbox usually at least twice.
On Aug 19, Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>(it usually is not, and it definitely is not for
>>tipical POP servers).
>Still, deleting messages from a mbox-style mailbox means copying
>the entire mailbox usually at least twice. That can cause a heavy
A tipical POP user downl
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 02:17:40PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> See the second reference I gave in the original message...
That tells us that UW-imap sucks. And that's not news.
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:31:58AM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:36:05PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> > Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default. However, it has some
> > disadvantages over maildir -- one of them is that it does a non-reversible
> > mo
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:36:05PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default. However, it has some
> disadvantages over maildir -- one of them is that it does a non-reversible
> modification to the message's text if it contains the sequence 'From ' at
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 01:32:12PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> and broken NFS locking.
Is there any other kind?
--
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Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases.
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On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:51:05PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >(it usually is not, and it definitely is not for
> >tipical POP servers).
> Still, deleting messages from a mbox-style mailbox means copying
> the entire mailbox usually at least twice.
Copying it once and renaming it, su
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >2. Benchmarking mbox versus maildir
> > http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/
>This has to be a joke. Everybody who knows something about mail servers
>can tell UW-* programs suck. The benchmark only confirms this,
On Aug 19, Cesar Eduardo Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> eximconfig) and all the MUAs must be able to grok it without needing any
> manual configuration
Are you offering to be the one which will patch everything and make the
upstream maintainers merge maildir support? And don't forget PO
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:36:05PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.5.6.0
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default. However, it has some
> disadvantages over maildir -- one of them is that it does a non-reversible
> modif
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.0
Severity: wishlist
Debian uses the traditional mailbox style by default. However, it has some
disadvantages over maildir -- one of them is that it does a non-reversible
modification to the message's text if it contains the sequence 'From ' at the
beginning o
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