Re: [Dovecot] Slightly OT : Maildir format (silly) questions

2009-04-01 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 10:45 +0100, Thomas Hummel wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 06:23:28PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > > No. Maybe a more understandable example would have been ~/Maildir/ and > > ~/Maildir/.bar/. If MDA only gets that one path (so it doesn't know > > the "maildir root di

Re: [Dovecot] Slightly OT : Maildir format (silly) questions

2009-03-27 Thread Thomas Hummel
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 06:23:28PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: > No. Maybe a more understandable example would have been ~/Maildir/ and > ~/Maildir/.bar/. If MDA only gets that one path (so it doesn't know > the "maildir root dir"), it uses a simple rule to figure out where to > update maild

Re: [Dovecot] Slightly OT : Maildir format (silly) questions

2009-03-26 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mar 26, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Thomas Hummel wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:23:44AM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: This is most likely because of Maildir++ quota. So for example if you tell MDA to deliver mail to /foo/bar, should it use /foo/bar/ maildirsize or /foo/maildirsize file? It's espe

Re: [Dovecot] Slightly OT : Maildir format (silly) questions

2009-03-26 Thread Dmitry Samersoff
Thomas Hummel wrote: Hello, I was asking what was the motivation for not having the envelope From in the Maildir format, as defined in the qmail spec : "The message is delivered without an extra UUCP- style From_ line, without any >From quoting, and without an extra blank line at the end." w

Re: [Dovecot] Slightly OT : Maildir format (silly) questions

2009-03-26 Thread Thomas Hummel
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:23:44AM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: > This is most likely because of Maildir++ quota. So for example if you > tell MDA to deliver mail to /foo/bar, should it use /foo/bar/maildirsize > or /foo/maildirsize file? It's especially problematic if the file > doesn't already ex

Re: [Dovecot] Slightly OT : Maildir format (silly) questions

2009-03-26 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 10:47 +0100, Thomas Hummel wrote: > Same question about the motivation in Courrier (Maildir++) for emulating a > hierarchy for subfolders (like in .folder.subfolder.subsubfolder) instead of > (note : I know about layout=FS, I'm not talking about that) implementing a > real >

Re: [Dovecot] Slightly OT : Maildir format (silly) questions

2009-03-26 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Thomas Hummel wrote: I was asking what was the motivation for not having the envelope From in the Maildir format, as defined in the qmail spec : "The message is delivered without an extra UUCP- style From_ line, without any >From quoting, and without an extra blank line at the end." which ma

[Dovecot] Slightly OT : Maildir format (silly) questions

2009-03-26 Thread Thomas Hummel
Hello, I was asking what was the motivation for not having the envelope From in the Maildir format, as defined in the qmail spec : "The message is delivered without an extra UUCP- style From_ line, without any >From quoting, and without an extra blank line at the end." which may sound silly si