On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:07:45PM +1100, Gavin Carr wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:38:06PM +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:32:32PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > > > This one time, at band camp, Alexander Samad wrote: > > > >thanks nicier, but as a side question any ideas on how I lost lines, > > > >there were there before the change to Maildir > > > > > > You got the lines count because in mbox format it's easy to work out > > > when parsing the mailbox file. In maildir format, it requires more > > > processing and since you don't need to know how long the messages are to > > > parse them all, it's not done. > > > > > > Line counting in mbox parsing is a trivial extension, in maildir it's > > > unnecessary overhead. Reading the Lines or Content-Length headers > > > (which I think is what Jeff is referring to) and relying on that is bad > > > practice for mail readers[1], but displaying the values it thinks are > > > correct is merely cosmetic. > > > > > > [1] > > > http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/content-length.html > > > > Okay agree, but still the underly question I have is my only change has > > been in my procmail rc file and the change has gone from > > > > ~alex/imap/mboxfile > > > > to > > > > ~alex/Maildir/.mboxfile/ > > > > The jist off it is, my the change in the mbox format the lines header > > was there and in the Maildir format it is not. > > > > If you are saying that procmail says hey its maildir and I don't need to > > insert that attribute, thats cool. But this hasn't been made clear. > > My understanding is that when using mbox format, having a Lines: header > makes parsing the mbox faster, so MUAs like mutt add it if it's missing. > And since you have to scan the whole mailbox anyway, it doesn't add any > processing overhead. > > For Maildir mailboxes, having a Lines header doesn't help with parsing, > and you get better performance by initially just reading headers rather > than bodies as well, so MUAs like mutt *don't* add said Lines header. > OTOH, it does seem to generate more than it's fair share of questions/ > complaints. > > So I think it's a mutt thing, not a procmail thing, and supposedly a > feature rather a bug. :-)
Thanks > > Cheers, > Gavin > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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