Re: Gnus and qmail maildir format

[fdc@cliwe.ping.de (Frank D. Cringle)]

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>Frank D Cringle <fdc@cliwe.ping.de> writes:
>> 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;

Agreed.  That would be an advantage.

>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)))

maildir2mbox quotes From.

Your method wins if $HOME is NFS mounted.  Otherwise it's equivalent to
~/Mailbox delivery.

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