Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:19:35AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why >> do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not >> only capable of storing messages in Maildir folders but also of >> generating them. This includes e.g. the exim(4) MTA, MDAs like >> procmail or maildrop, and the MUA mutt.
> As far as I am aware, maildrop does *not* support creating Maildirs. > Even if it does support creating top level Maildir (last I tested it > didn't seem to), it doesn't support creating a maildir within a maildir > (this apparently is a bit different, and it used by courier-imap). You > do with with maildirmake (or at least the version I have installed) with > the -f option. > See bug #68685 for details. Thanks for clarification. BTW iirc support for maildir within a maildir (i.e. a mailfolder containing both messages and subfolders) is a little bit more limited than basic maildir support, some clients support basic maildir but not maildir within a maildir. I just cannot remember which ones, perhaps Debians patched versions of pine/UW-IMAP? I agree that debianutils could be the correct package. cu andreas -- Hey, da ist ein Ballonautomat auf der Toilette! Unofficial _Debian-packages_ of latest unstable _tin_ http://www.logic.univie.ac.at/~ametzler/debian/tin-snapshot/