Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 19:46:57 +0100 From: Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: felix@royal.net Subject: Re: wanted: mail-filter capable of the maildir-format Message-ID: <19971208194657.24146@paert.tse-online.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971208123941.22686A-100000@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk>; from Aled Treharne on Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 12:44:17PM %2B0000 References: <19971206184553.58471@paert.tse-online.de> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971208123941.22686A-100000@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk>
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On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 12:44:17PM +0000, Aled Treharne wrote: > procmail (v3.11pre7) supports the maildir format, so long as you have > your mail in maildir formats in the first place. uuups. I was just in the mood of writing my success-story. But as far as I know, procmail doesn't support maildir out of the box, but one has to integrate a certain patch. (A link to the patch is easy to be found at http://www.qmail.org. Works like a charm, besides that I just have to re-activate my procmail- knowledge. > On this not, does anyone know of an easy way of changing normal (?) > mailboxes into maildir format? At the mo' I have to save the mail to a > temp folder, delete the old folder, create the new maildir directories > (cur,new,tmp..etc) In the first place you really should use 'maildirmake' to create new maildirs. It's part of the standard qmail-distribution. > and then save the mail to the new maildir folder. It's > a real pain, even with Pine's select (;) command. We would like to change ;-)) I was searching for the maildir-capable filter just because of the 'pain' to have to select all the mail for each mailing-list manually and then saving it to the folder. (Although, ...that's quite easy and effective with mutt) > all of our users accross to maildir format, but it's just too much > hassle. Right. But have a closer look at the 'user-contributed Maildir Support' section of the qmail-website. ("Ivan Kohler has a mbox2maildir program.") That's the place I've found the procmail-patch. (Hint, hint, ... it really should be integrated in the procmail-port ...) > Pine 3.95 supports maildir format too. :) fine. But I switched to mutt for misc. reasons (threaded mail-sorting ...) some time ago. Regards, Andreas Braukmann -- /// TSE TeleService GmbH | Gsf: Arne Reuter | /// Hovestrasse 14 | Andreas Braukmann | We do it with /// D-48351 Everswinkel | HRB: 1430, AG WAF | FreeBSD/SMP /// ------------------------------------------------------------------- /// PGP-Key: http://www.tse-online.de/~ab/public-key /// Key fingerprint: 12 13 EF BC 22 DD F4 B6 3C 25 C9 06 DC D3 45 9B
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