Re: maildirmake

2003-06-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:36:17AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why > > do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not > > only capable of storing messages in Maildir folders but also of &

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
ut that I couldn't find any > `maildirmake' for Debian, excluding qmail-src, courier and maildrop, which I > don't > want/don't need to use. Furthermore I'd like to stay with a very small and > clean and free system (only usage of apt-get, don't install any u

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:19:35AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why >> do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not >> only capable of

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
keeping my brain in the 70's... inertia can be hard to beat... Yes, I now know that decent MUAs can handle Maildir locally, so I'd like to remove my objection to putting maildirmake in the base system. Debianutils seems like the place for it to go, since there are other "not-rea

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:19:35AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why > do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not > only capable of storing messages in Maildir folders but also of > generatin

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Alexander Wirt
Am Die, 2003-06-24 um 03.46 schrieb Matthew Palmer: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Now I'm wondering about it even more. IMHO `maildirmake' is _very_ > > necessary for any mail and as it seems to be only a 2-line-shell-script > > why it isn

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. > > > Why do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir > > > is not only capable of storing messages in Maildir folders but > > >

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Sam Clegg
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:45:30AM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why > > do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not > > only

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Oliver Kurth
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 09:45:30AM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why > > do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not > > only

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Michael Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag, 24. Juni 2003 09:45 schrieb Ralf Hildebrandt: > * Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. > > Why do we need it? Any program I know of which can hand

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You could start by telling us what maildirmake is supposed to do. Why > do we need it? Any program I know of which can handle Maildir is not > only capable of storing messages in Maildir folders but also of > generating them. This includ

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:12:04PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > My logic was that, from the basic system, Maildir mailboxes are no > use. Can I have a bit of the weed you are smoking? Seems to be good. Package: mutt Priority: standard `standard' These packages pro

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > But, I was looking around and wondering about that I couldn't find > any `maildirmake' for Debian, excluding qmail-src, courier and > maildrop, which I don't want/don't need to use. [...] You could start by telling us what maildirmake

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, David B Harris wrote: > Given how simple it is, makes more sense to have it in one place. I > don't know where it should be (in all the MTAs?), but there you go :) > Well I have one in dovecot but I don't see why it couldn't be in e.g. debianutils. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EM

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread David B Harris
utt, or a halfdozen other MUAs. :) > My logic was that, from the basic system, Maildir mailboxes are no use. > Things like courier make Maildir useful, so that's where the maildirmake > script should live. It *might* make sense to put it in exim where people > can run it to make

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread Joel Baker
al MUAs... after all, most folks don't read their mbox with cat, either (though it's equally possible). > My logic was that, from the basic system, Maildir mailboxes are no use. > Things like courier make Maildir useful, so that's where the maildirmake > script should live.

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, David B Harris wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:46:48 +1000 (EST) > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Now I'm wondering about it even more. IMHO `maildirmake' is _v

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread anobo
Thanks Matthew and David. I think, it is a _strange_ discussion to use mbox or maildir and doesn't lead to an one-and-only solution. > Could you elaborate on your usage of maildirmake in this courier-less situation? I'm using getmail, which is able to deliver directly in maildir an

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread David B Harris
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:46:48 +1000 (EST) Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Now I'm wondering about it even more. IMHO `maildirmake' is _very_ > > necessary for any mail and as it seems to be only a 2-

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now I'm wondering about it even more. IMHO `maildirmake' is _very_ > necessary for any mail and as it seems to be only a 2-line-shell-script > why it isn't included anywhere and anyway in the base-system? As I recall, maild

maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread anobo
Hello Debian-Developers, first, many thanks all of you for your great work. As I am not a pro, I am very glad that most of Debian works out-of-the-box. But, I was looking around and wondering about that I couldn't find any `maildirmake' for Debian, excluding qmail-src, courier an