From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3968 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jesse@phiwumbda.org (Jesse F. Hughes) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: To IMAP or not to IMAP Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:35:36 +0200 Organization: The International Eternal Order of Palsy-Walsies Message-ID: <871xj8jht3.fsf@phiwumbda.org> References: <87pt6ya8at.fsf@phiwumbda.org> <86llhllqfb.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> <87llhlwuw5.fsf@phiwumbda.org> <87acy0gc3e.fsf@bigriver.doilywood.lan> <87r7rbu5w5.fsf@phiwumbda.org> <86iscm1f7k.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> <87ekn9sd5q.fsf@phiwumbda.org> <871xj9rtgy.fsf@phiwumbda.org> <2m08n9Fhc180U2@uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669986 21197 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:13:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:13:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:02 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!surfnet.nl!kun.nl!wnnews.sci.kun.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: catv2171.extern.kun.nl Original-X-Trace: wnnews.sci.kun.nl 1090240360 4287 131.174.122.171 (19 Jul 2004 12:32:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sci.kun.nl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:32:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RscwhnYVLzJ95R5I2TSYgR+8fY0= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4109 Original-Lines: 26 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4109 Tue Jan 17 17:33:02 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3968 Archived-At: Christopher Browne writes: > I thought that Sendmail had a patch available to let it support > Maildir too. A little googling told me this: ,---- | sendmail is only the mail transfer agent, it does not store e-mails by | itself. To do so, it hands the e-mail message over to a so called | local delivery agent or LDA for short. | | It is the with choice of the LDA that you make a choice for the | message store format. Whereas mail.local uses ed7 mailbox format, | maildrop or procmail (AFAIK) can deliver to Maildirs. `---- This makes things simpler. I already use procmail in a trivial way (for bogofilter mostly). -- Jesse Hughes "Yes, I'm one of those arrogant people who tries to be quotable. There is actually at least one person who quotes me often." -- James Harris