From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-08-08T02:57:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Mail delivery to non-mbox?

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:05:17AM +0900, Aredridel wrote:
> 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.

Maildir++ works well for me.

Easiest way to deliver in this format is to use 'deliverquota' from the
courier-imap package. From Ruby you'd use IO.popen to pass it a message.

Regards,

Brian.