From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5437 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Request for "maildir" support Date: 04 Mar 1996 20:38:18 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <87ag1xj7hh.fsf@smart.ruhr.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146041 319 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:34:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:34:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA20226 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 12:13:39 -0800 Original-Received: from eistla.ifi.uio.no (4867@eistla.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.29]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 20:38:20 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 20:38:19 +0100 Original-To: tom@smart.ruhr.de (Thomas Neumann) In-Reply-To: tom@smart.ruhr.de's message of 04 Mar 1996 14:47:06 +0100 Original-Lines: 35 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5437 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5437 tom@smart.ruhr.de (Thomas Neumann) writes: > A guy named D.J. Bernstein is currently > developing "qmail", a new MTA. qmail features a new mailbox > format called "maildir", which is different from std. UNIX mailbox > files, different from MH folders and different from whatever you > care to name. Well, it isn't even an mbox format. Reading through the manual I was struck by how absolutely hype-free and down-to-earth it was. :-) He should definitely learn how to overcome his modesty. Really. I think the format he's chosen for the incoming mail is OK, and I think Gnus should definitely support it if more than 1 site decides to use qmail. It'll have to wait until Red Gnus, though. One thing that puzzles me from the delivery section: Fifth, the program _N_F_S_-_w_r_i_t_e_s the mes- sage to the file. If the file is Huge, and Gnus starts reading/moving this file before it has arrived totally, won't this potentially mean that Gnus might get an incomplete version of the file. So I guess it isn't as simple as the manual says to read the "new" directory. The reader has to check the "cur" directory that the corresponding file there has been removed before it attempts to deal with a file in the "new" directory. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."