Re: Gnus and qmail maildir format

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Frank D Cringle <fdc@cliwe.ping.de> writes:
> Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
>>>>>>> On 05 Aug 1997, Jason R Mastaler said:

>> Jason> [...]  I'm not sure whether support for Maildir is built into
>> Jason> Gnus yet, but I would guess no based on what I've read. [...]

>> If I understand correctly, the difference perceived by a user is that
>> qmail does not write mbox style files but instead writes one file per
>> message in a directory.

Which has the major advantage, in my opinion, that it avoids "From " lines
and therefore doesn't have to do the really broken quoting of lines
beginning with "From " in the article body.

> Qmail's suggested default configuration delivers into a Mailbox (mbox)
> file in the user's home directory.  You can request delivery to a
> Maildir instead, but that does not seem to be much use for gnus users.

Disagree strongly, particularly if you're having your mail delivered to
you over NFS.  The main reason why I'd like to have maildir support in
Gnus directly is to avoid the body quoting of lines beginning with From;
in the meantime, the following works fine:

;; Since I'm using a qmail maildir to store incoming mail, we need to call
;; maildir2mbox before trying to fetch new mail.
(add-hook 'nnmail-pre-get-new-mail-hook
          (lambda () (call-process "/var/qmail/bin/maildir2mbox" nil nil)))

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>