Your message dated Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:04:52 +0100 (CET)
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Re: Bug#274509: Maildir issues.
has caused the Debian Bug report #274509,
regarding Maildir issues.
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected]
immediately.)
--
274509: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=274509
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---
Package: pine
Version: 4.61-1
Maintainer: Santiago Vila <[email protected]>
I've been considering using Maildirs for a while so the Maildir patch
for pine seems a very good idea, however, ...
1) The maildir patch _really_ needs documentation.
Highlights:
If $HOME/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} directories exist they will override
the mbox folder otherwise you need an inbox specification like:
incoming-folders=XMail #md/XMaildir,
If you want to use Maildir folders the only incantation that works
fairly well is:
folder-collections=Maildir #md/Maildir/.[]
2) Use of Maildir folders is very fragile.
a) If a message disappears from a folder there is no way to re-sync
short of closing the mailbox. (Hitting the end of the index does
NOT work)
b) You cannot have more than one Maildir folder collection, it may
appear to work eg:
folder-collections=Maildir #md/Maildir/.mail.[],
Archive #md/Maildir/.archive.[]
But save-message does not deposit messages in the correct folder;
it seems to force some folder in the last collection.
c) This form fails in a different way:
folder-collections=Maildir #md/Maildir/.[],
Archive #md/ArchMail/.[]
The 'ArchMail' collection is empty; always. Even if I use [A]dd to
add a new folder. (The maildir is created ...)
d) Maildir folder collections don't work at all unless the directory
the collection is in is a Maildir itself.
e) Even with the form of folders that does work ie:
folder-collections=Maildir #md/Maildir/.[]
The folders are all at the same 'level', if you have folders:
.personal
.work
.archive.personal
.archive.work
The two '.archive.' folders should appear to be in a 'Local Collection'
but the folder list in pine is 'flat'.
f) When you have a maildir in a 'normal' folder collection, ie:
folder-collections=Mail Mail/[]
Then the maildir folder will appear three times in the folder
list, once as a 'local collection' and twice as a mail folder.
Selecting the 'local collection' does not, however, open the
Maildir as a Maildir containing folders (ie looking only for
"<...>/.*/{new,cur,tmp}" ) instead it opens it as a directory
of mbox folders so you cannot even see any normal maildir
subfolders. (Because they are 'dot' files)
Opening one of the 'folder' names does open the maildir folder
correctly.
Phew, that's all I remember today ... have fun ;-)
--
Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
<http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
The pine package has just been removed from unstable and will soon be
removed from testing.
I'm now checking old pine bugs. Some of them will be reassigned to
alpine, but as this one is pine-specific (as alpine does not have
maildir support yet), I'm just closing it with this message.
[ Sorry, not CC:ing the submitter as the domain seems not to exist anymore ]
Thanks.
--- End Message ---
