Thus said Ken Hornstein on Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:44:06 -0500: > Right, I was wondering if Dovecot was cool with other Maildir clients > modifying its store; the answer is "yes". I was also wondering if we > do a "refile +/path/to/dovecot/folder 42", should we put the message > in "new" or "cur"? Since it seems (in the singular instance of > Dovecot) that "new" is for messages that are flagged as \Recent, and I > don't think refiled messages should count as \Recent, then that > suggests that the message should go into cur.
I suppose that depends on the meaning of the word ``deliver'' and also whether or not the refile command is moving message 42 from the same filesystem, or crossing filesystem boundaries. In the former case, it's an atomic operation, but in the latter case, to retain the ``crash proof'' nature of Maildir, it would seem that one should ``deliver'' the message first into Maildir/tmp, followed by an atomic move into either Maildir/new or Maildir/cur. Andy -- TAI64 timestamp: 400000005a8753f1 -- Nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers