On Wed, 03 May 2006 21:59:54 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > The complication is that the filthy KMail saves message flags in > > > some 'index' files (instead of in message headers). All I want > > > to do really is to convert these into any standard format, such > > > as mbox (what's evil about it, BTW?) for use with some normal > > > mail client (Sylpheed probably).
On a cool side not check out the maildir plugin for sylpheed-claws. Just got added recently and I have been really loving it. > > Message flags? What do you mean by this? As in if it has been > > read or not? > > yes, status flags like 'read', 'replied', 'important', etc > > > If that is the case, there is no actual method outside of > > maildir for this. In maildir a message is new if it has is in the > > new directory. Upon reading it should be moved to the cur > > directory. > > what about 'Status: ' and 'X-Status: ' in headers? Cool. Was not aware that those existed. > > Mbox is fine till it starts getting large. It is easily > > corrupted. It requires locking and the like. More than one > > program can not safely access it. MH solves these a bit, but > > maildir fixes them completely. > > never had a problem with this; after all, I always use only single > mail client at one time, so it seems that maildir won't be of any > advantage in my case -- on the contrary, filling the FS with extra > 10000 files won't do any good. Yeah, it does blow through more inodes, but for what I need I find it to be worth it. I tend to have atleast one open and then occasionally accessing it through squirrelmail. > [...] > > You may not notice how nice maildir till you admin your first mail > > server. This is especially true if you have dialup customers and > > are using sendmail. If you are using webmail you are even more > > screwed with mbox. > > thanx for the info, but I prefer Postfix ;) Cool. QMail here. ^_^ _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"