From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2005-02-07T13:57:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and maildir

Dido Sevilla <dido.sevilla@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:13:42 +0900, mithrandir2003cz@gmail.com
> <mithrandir2003cz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Does anybody know about ruby library for working with maildirs?
>> 
>> I checked RAA but I found nothing :-(
>
> I use rubymail (http://www.lickey.com/rubymail/). Maildirs are a
> helluvalot simpler than mboxes. A maildir is simply a directory with
> three standard subdirectories under it named cur, new, and tmp. Each
> of these directories contains one file per mail message, with a name
> based on the epoch time. Rubymail + the standard library is more
> than adequate to do any reasonable manipulation of a maildir very
> easily, without an explosion of complexity.

RubyFilter (at http://www.lickey.com/rubyfilter/ ) can deliver new
mail to a Maildir.  But neither RubyMail nor RubyFilter has code for
actually reading mail from a maildir (e.g. moving messages from "new"
to "cur", properly processing "tmp", etc. according to the Maildir
spec).  That would be an interesting project!

But as mithrandir2003cz@gmail.com suggests above, it isn't that hard
to work with Maildirs since each message is in an individual file.


-- 
matt