In regard to: Re: Mailbox format how-to, Chris Ross said (at 5:49pm on Nov...:
Mark Crispin wrote:The easiest way to do this is to edit file imap-200?/src/osdep/unix/Makefile to set CREATEPROTO=mbxproto instead of the current unixproto. Then rebuild the entire UW IMAP toolkit.
Yeah, I knew about that method. I was just wondering if there was a way to make dmail (from procmailrc, for example) know to instantiate new mail folders as mbx instead of mbox. It seems not unreasonable to have command-line args for tmail/dmail (other than -I) that could specify format. But, what to do in the case that it doesn't match existing format might be an issue.
Are you planning on doing home directory mail delivery, or delivery to a spool directory for INBOX and other folders live under ~ or ~/mail?
However, once created, an mbx-format mailbox shouldn't vanish. So, it should work just to create empty mbx-format mailboxes for everybody who doesn't have it. It works to create one, and then copy it to each user (there isn't any user-specific in an empty mbx-format mailbox). That way, you don't have to do any rebuilding.
Okay. How would you recommend creating this empty mbx mailbox?
mailutil create '#driver.mbx/foo' creates folder `foo' in MBX format.
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