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From: geoff@collyer.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme mail on unix
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:38:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2fc64781a8f55e18376a84f8fe0a630e@collyer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060119215835.492A124FAE@holo.morphisms.net>

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MH uses monotonically-increasing small positive integers to number
messages within a folder.  Maildir, as I recall, uses large
pseudo-random numbers, or what appear to be pseudo-random numbers.

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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme mail on unix
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:58:30 -0500
Message-ID: <20060119215835.492A124FAE@holo.morphisms.net>

> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:24:36AM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
> > Eventually I might replace the mh programs with code from
> > Plan 9 (still leaving the mh disk layout) but I don't expect to
> > do that any time soon.
> 
> Personally, I'd rather that wasn't the case.  I'd rather see a version of
> the MH utilities (or a subset of the useful ones) that know how to deal with
> Maildir or IMAP (given the discrete nature of the MH commands, the latter
> might be hard and/or slow).

What is the difference between mh's layout and maildir?
I thought they were the same.

Russ

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-20  2:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-18 16:46 Russ Cox
2006-01-18 17:56 ` Tim Wiess
2006-01-18 18:08   ` Tim Wiess
2006-01-18 19:10   ` Russ Cox
2006-01-19 16:17     ` Aaron Griffin
2006-01-19 16:24       ` Russ Cox
2006-01-19 21:28         ` Dan Cross
2006-01-19 21:58           ` Russ Cox
2006-01-20  2:38             ` geoff [this message]
2006-01-20  5:31               ` Scott Schwartz
2006-01-20  6:04                 ` John Barham
2006-01-20 13:50                   ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-20 23:01                     ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-01-21  0:06                       ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-20 13:58           ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-20 20:02             ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-20 20:12               ` uriel
2006-01-20 20:18                 ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-20 20:41                   ` uriel
2006-01-20 20:59                     ` erik quanstrom
2006-01-20 22:58 Russ Cox

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