Re: Mailboxes

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Tue, 17 July 22:11 Raven wrote:

> > The only sane mailbox format is maildir, the others are problematic.
> > Especially mbox.  Of them all only maildir is reliable.  Don't use the
> > others unless you need compatibility with other programs.  For more on
> > maildir see http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
> 
> Well, having read that web page, I've managed to determine that what I'm
> doing isn't maildir. I guess the next questions are:
> 1) what *am* I doing,

Probably Berkeley mbox.  Giveaway is the "From sender@domain Wed, ...."
line seperating messages.

> 2) is there an interface in balsa so I don't have to do it from gmc,

Not sure what you mean here.

> 3) if maildir is really preferred, is there a way to convert my current
> mailboxes to that format.

Try the qmail web pages (maildir was introduced with qmail).  There are loads
of links to all kinds of utilities.

http://www.qmail.org/

Brian