On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 08:47:46PM -0400, Tim Gray wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2013 at 05:24 PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> >When the maildir format was created, it was decided to put a lot of
> >information in the file name to avoid having to open each file to
> >obtain or change that information.  The format of the name was
> >standardized (to a point) so that any MUA claiming to understand the
> >maildir format could manage a set of messages written by any MUA or
> >MDA also claiming to use the maildir format.  Adding ".eml" to the
> >end of file names breaks that interoperability contract.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.  I should have been more clear - I 
> understood this.  I'm not overly concerned about breaking a 
> compatibility with clients/servers I don't use.

You're not, but obviously such a patch should never be implemented in
mutt itself.

w

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