From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2003-08-08T02:05:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Mail delivery to non-mbox?


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On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:58, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
> Saluton!
>=20
> Hi!
>=20
> I am presently delivering e-mails to my mbox style mailbox because
> for this kind of mailbox I know how to correctly do locking. I would
> like to be able to deliver to MH and Maildir style mailboxes as well.

I highly reccomend Maildir, though watch out for inode over-usage.

http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html

Delightfully simple, I think.  Not pretty -- a little prettier than
SysV-style initscripts, less pretty than Ruby in general, but overall a
nice mailbox format.

I know of no Ruby library to handle it, though the semantics should be
about 7 lines of ruby code, with error handling.

Be aware there's a Maildir++ format, which has subfolders and quotas. In
my opinion, neither are well implemented and are vastly ugly, but they
work much more easily than mboxes.

Ari

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