From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15111 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Christensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus and the qmail maildir format Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:48:58 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154199 20200 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:49:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07986 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 13:55:02 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA24346 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:58:36 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAH22938; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:57:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:49:43 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA22918 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:49:26 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 26975 invoked by uid 504); 27 Apr 1998 20:49:07 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26972 invoked from network); 27 Apr 1998 20:49:06 -0000 Original-Received: from jhuml1.hcf.jhu.edu (128.220.2.86) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 1998 20:49:06 -0000 Original-Received: from chow.mat.jhu.edu by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #18666) with ESMTP id <01IWDD4G0GWMBCARSH@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu> for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:46:58 EDT Original-Received: (from jdc@localhost) by chow.mat.jhu.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA25448; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:48:59 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu's message of "25 Apr 1998 12:04:23 -0400" Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.5/Emacs 19.34 Original-Lines: 16 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15111 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15111 patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti) writes: > Exactly. Maildir is a lock-free spool format which never mangles > mail, even if you have multiple machines *delivering* to the same > spool simultaneously over NFS. Maildirs don't quote "From " lines and > they are fully 8-bit clean. In short, they are the Right Thing and > Gnus should support them. Do you think Gnus should have a maildir backend? This is orthogonal to the issue of being able to incorporate mail from a maildir spool, but there would be some overlap in code. Dan -- Dan Christensen jdc@math.jhu.edu