On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Tom Samplonius wrote:
>
> > MBX is not the same as mbox.
> >
> > I think everything agrees that mbox is a bad format. [...]
>
> > Beware that Exim uses internal MBX support, rather than the WU library.
> > This can pose compatibility problems. Marc Crispin (the author) certainly
> > doesn't recommend anyone do this.
>
> Furthermore, there is a tool kit built on the c-client that provides
>
> tmail (to be used as a c-client MDA)
> dmail (to be used as a c-client users mail filer (for things like user
> mail filters, etc))
This would seem to answer my most recent message on this topic.
However, I just untarred my uw-imap (2000c) tarball, and could find
nothing called tmail.. Didnt try looking for dmail.
I will have to re-check on the uw imap site to see if perhaps this
toolkit is a seperate package..
>
> These will ensure c-client mbx compatibility.
>
> It is worth looking at the things in the doc directory that come with
> UW-imap. Included is a rant against maildir.
>
> -j
>
>
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