Yeah, I think it should be ok as long as no messages from different instances happen to have the same name.
Quoting from the documentation: Unless you're writing messages to a maildir, the format of a unique name is none of your business. A unique name can be anything that doesn't contain a colon (or slash) and doesn't start with a dot. Do not try to extract information from unique names. Okay, so you're writing messages. A unique name has three pieces, separated by dots. On the left is the result of time() or the second counter from gettimeofday(). On the right is the result of gethostname(). (To deal with invalid host names, replace / with \057 and : with \072.) In the middle is a delivery identifier, discussed below. As the terminology suggests, every delivery to this maildir must have its own unique name. When a maildir is shared through NFS, every machine that delivers to the maildir must have its own hostname. Within one machine, every delivery within the same second must have a different delivery identifier. Get BlueMail for Android On 11 Aug 2023, 03:35, at 03:35, H via Postfix-users <postfix-users@postfix.org> wrote: >On 08/10/2023 01:25 AM, Eugene R via Postfix-users wrote: >> Hello >> >> I think something like this should work >> xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.domain.com:2,S >> That is, change @ into dot, remove ".eml", and add ":2,S" suffix >(marking messages as read). >> >> The message sizes are Dovecot extension, I guess mutt will not use >them anyway. >> >> Best wishes >> Eugene >> >> Get BlueMail for Android <https://bluemail.me> >> On 10 Aug 2023, at 04:49, H via Postfix-users ><postfix-users@postfix.org <mailto:postfix-users@postfix.org>> wrote: >> >> On 07/31/2023 09:24 AM, Eugene R via Postfix-users wrote: >> >> Hello, Those "ugly characters" are there for a reason: they >are specified by the Maildir standard (and the Dovecot's extensions to >it) to encode various metadata such as message ID, size, flags, etc >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir >https://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html >https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/mailbox_formats/maildir/ Also, why >the "filename esthetics" even matters? The maildir directory is not >supposed to be viewed (let alone directly accessed or modified) by a >user. Mail clients and Dovecot provide useful (as well as >format-independent and universal) human-oriented interfaces and admin >tools. Best wishes, Eugene On 31.07.2023 09:43, Fourhundred Thecat via >Postfix-users wrote: >> >> Hello, I am using Maildir format on my server (Postfix + >Dovecot). The individual filenames have this format: >1690633510.M94611123819.mail,S=11706,W=12202:2,S Now, I have another, >unrelated email account (not my mail server), and I have set up >Thunderbird with local Maildir support. When I look inside the folder, >the emails have this nice and clear format: for received: >xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx...@sender.com.eml for sent: >xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx...@recipient.com.eml how could I have >such nice filenames on my server, with useful information in the >filename, instead of those ugly containing special characters like '=' >and ':' ? Do the nioe filenames come from Thunderbird, or from the >mailserver ? thanks, >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org >To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org >> >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To >unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org >> >> >> I have a related problem where I have to merge several >Thunderbird maildir directory trees into maildir directory trees to be >used by mutt (and postfix). As noted above, Thunderbird does not follow >the same standard for naming mail files so I plan to write a script to >rename all Thunderbird mail files "appropriately". >> >> What would the "minimum" requirement be for components to include >when renaming these individual mail files? >> >> The script would have to extract the appropriate information from >each individual mail. >> >> Thank you in advance. >> >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org > >Thank you, I will try that. I am running an older version of >Thunderbird and the mail files in the maildir are named >1680282914766155 etc., possibly representing the Unix timestamp, >including microseconds, when downloaded from the mail server. > >Although the filename format is different from mentioned above, I guess >that the names used by my version of Thunderbird would still work with >postfix/mutt as long as they are unique and the ":2,S" suffix added? > >Thus, a mass rename adding the ":2,S" should suffice after which I can >copy/move them to the appropriate cur subdirectory for use by mutt >etc.? > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org >To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org
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