Re: little annoyance in maildir support.

[Maciej Matysiak <phoner@blah.pl>]

On 06 Jul 2000 11:45:04 -0400 ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> wrote:

> Gnus uses mail-crash-box (a file in Unix mail format) to collect mails
> >From various mail sources including maildir

make it use maildir ;)

> therefore, Gnus has to insert ">" before "From ".

doh. that breakes the quotation colouring :(

> > X-From-Line: maildir Thu Jul  6 00:59:50 2000
> >  instead of
> > X-From-Line: sender@domain Thu Jul  6 00:59:50 2000
> Maildir has no From line.

hm? what do you mean? every single file in ~/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp}/*
has the "From: <user@domain>" line in the header. am i missing something?

> It is not Gnus job, but time.el, which checks display-time-mail-file,
> the environment variable MAIL or others.

ok, the documentation says about display-time-mail-file:
 *File name of mail inbox file, for indicating existence of new mail.

is it possible now to give maildir as value for it or does it need a patch?

m.m.
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