Re: [Nmh-workers] What OS/Architecture Do You Run nmh On?

[Paul Fox]

ken wrote:
 > >wouldn't that break the Maildir "protocol" for creating unique filenames?
 > >do other programs create files in "cur" directly?
 > 
 > My reading of the specification is "no".
 > 
 > AFAICT, the way it's supposed to work is:
 > 
 > - You create a unique filename in the "tmp" directory, and write it out.
 > - You then rename that unique filename to "new".  But that's supposed to
 >   be done (AFAICT) by delivery agents.  But the uniqueness doesn't depend
 >   on the move from new to cur; it's supposed to be unique in tmp.  When
 >   you rename messages to cur it should have an ":info" extension (where
 >   the info extension has some semi-defined flags), but the uniqness should
 >   have already existed when written to tmp.

oops.  sorry for the noise.  i conflated "new" and "tmp" in my memory
of how Maildir worked.  qmail was too long ago, for me, apparently.

paul

 > 
 > And, to see what OTHER programs do ... I decided to look at Mutt, since it
 > is pretty popular and seems to be stable.  AFAICT, the short answer is
 > that if the message considered old (I don't know what an "old" message is,
 > but I guess it's if the Status header line has an "O" in it?) OR if it
 > has been marked as "read", then when the message is written to a Maildir
 > it is renamed directly from "tmp" into "cur", otherwise it will get renamed
 > to "new".
 > 
 > --Ken
 > 
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