As a longtime (and current) qmail user, I'm interested in understanding
this argument more in detail; e.g. where did you go back and look to
support the claim that he was trying to invent a maildrop?
From http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html:
Well, this web page for one.
But .... I guess on further reflection, maybe my earlier statement
wasn't accurate. In my mind a mail DROP is where an MTA drops off email
for some later program to pick up, not necessarily where mail is stored
for manipulation by a MUA, and a lot of the Maildir documentation is
talking about how there's a special delivery directory ("new"). But
since the idea is you move from "new" to "cur" and leave it in "cur"
AND there are some specifications for mail flags to be stored in the
filename, it's probably more accurate to say that it is a mailbox.
--Ken
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