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Maildir/ support looks a bit wierd

2000-12-13 01:17:39
Hi there, I am testing procmail extensively for Maildir support and I
discovered something that I think is now right, but I may be wrong.

Almost every other software I use (or tried) say postfix, mutt, qmail
and courier-(mta|imap|webmail) stores mail in a very different way than
procmail (procmail being the exception here, not the rule).

Other mailers save their mail to files that looks like this..
~/Maildir/.list.procmail/cur/976672218.2600_9.synchro:2,RS
and procmails' version would look like this
~/Maildir/.list.procmail/cur/_xw+yFuN6.synchro:2,S

Any reason why it's done this way? Isn't it easier to use the time
format other that to cook up a random string (Is it actually random?)

Any perceivable side effects, here? Especially for interoperability
between servers/procmail.

Thanks.
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