Re: Qmail ~/Maildir/ backend?

[Jason R Mastaler <jason@4b.org>]

Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes:

> The current version of the FAQ at www.gnus.org tells me that there is
> currently no support in Gnus for directly interfacing with the Qmail
> Maildir/ style mailboxes.
> 
> Is this still true? Or can I stick Quassia with my Qmail? :)

I think it's still true, but you might try the method suggested at the
end of this forwarded message.

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Date:    06 Aug 1997 03:23:42 -0700 
From:    Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> 
To:      ding@gnus.org 
Subject: Re: Gnus and qmail maildir format 
 
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/> 
 
 
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