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Re: Procmail and maildir format

2000-10-05 02:29:39

  >   I am using maildir format for my email.
  >   One other question now. Why is the mail filename different for
  >   maildrop and procmail?
  >
  >   Maildrop Delivered Mail           Procmail Delivered Mail
  >   970339509.336_0.myhost,S\=3030    _FL,3Pk15.myhost
  >   970339510.340_0.myhost,S\=2832    _GL,3Pk15.myhost


Authors of the various pieces of
software use what they find convenient. Maildrop appends the size
of the message to the filename so that it takes less resources to find
the size of a maildir, procmail uses a base64 scheme because it
fits better with how procmail does other things.

What is used doesn't matter since reader software isn't supposed to
interpret filenames anyway.

-- 
Gjermund Sorseth


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