On 08/11/2023 01:38 AM, Eugene R wrote: > 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 <https://bluemail.me> > On 11 Aug 2023, at 03:35, H via Postfix-users <postfix-users@postfix.org > <mailto: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 > Good, thank you.
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