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Bug#68685: maildirmake

Subject: Bug#68685: maildirmake
From: Josip Rodin
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:40:14 +0200
Newsgroups: linux.debian.bugs.dist
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:07:28PM +0200, Josip Rodin 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
> > > generating them. This includes e.g. the exim(4) MTA, MDAs like
> > > procmail or maildrop, and the MUA mutt.
> > 
> > As far as I am aware, maildrop does *not* support creating Maildirs.
> 
> Not intrinsically, but it's trivial to hack it,
> 
> DUMMY=`[ -d mail/maildir ] || maildirmake mail/maildir`
> 
> > Even if it does support creating top level Maildir (last I tested it
> > didn't seem to), it doesn't support creating a maildir within a maildir
> > (this apparently is a bit different, and it used by courier-imap). You
> > do with with maildirmake (or at least the version I have installed) with
> > the -f option.
> 
> DUMMY=`[ -d mail/maildir/.folder ] || maildirmake -f folder mail/maildir`

Hi Brian, where do we stand on this old wishlist bug report?

Could we call maildrop's features in this regard "support for Maildir++"
or should the bug perhaps be retitled?

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