On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:13:46PM +0200, Johan Almqvist wrote:
> * "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010508 14:50]:
> > Peter van Dijk([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.07 16:41:38 +0000:
> > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:37:52PM +0200, Magnus Bodin wrote:
> > > > Go for procmail since it contains native Maildir compliance nowadays.
> > > Maildir support you mean. procmail's Maildir implementation is far
> > > from 'compliant' (as far as a real compliancy standard exists), and
> > > can lose mail easily.
> > please elaborate, why?
>
> It doesn't follow Maildir file naming conventions. Not even close...
That is not at all the problem. The problem is that the filenames it
create aren't guaranteed unique, but even worse, it doesn't even try
to prevent overwriting an equally-named file, which is the worst
problem.
Greetz, Peter.
