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Subject: Re: [9fans] acme mail on unix
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:38:48 -0800
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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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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme mail on unix
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
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> 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
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