Mail delivery to non-mbox?

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Josef 'Jupp' Schugt

Saluton!

Hi!

I am presently delivering e-mails to my mbox style mailbox because
for this kind of mailbox I know how to correctly do locking. I would
like to be able to deliver to MH and Maildir style mailboxes as well.

I am looking for a library for that purpose or at least for
information how to avoid interference between my application (that
fetches mails from my POP3 account) and my mail program.

I did already seek for such a library but didn't find anything :-<

Gis,

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
 
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Aredridel

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Saluton!
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Hi!
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I am presently delivering e-mails to my mbox style mailbox because
for this kind of mailbox I know how to correctly do locking. I would
like to be able to deliver to MH and Maildir style mailboxes as well.

I highly reccomend Maildir, though watch out for inode over-usage.

http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html

Delightfully simple, I think. Not pretty -- a little prettier than
SysV-style initscripts, less pretty than Ruby in general, but overall a
nice mailbox format.

I know of no Ruby library to handle it, though the semantics should be
about 7 lines of ruby code, with error handling.

Be aware there's a Maildir++ format, which has subfolders and quotas. In
my opinion, neither are well implemented and are vastly ugly, but they
work much more easily than mboxes.

Ari

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Brian Candler

http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html

Delightfully simple, I think. Not pretty -- a little prettier than
SysV-style initscripts, less pretty than Ruby in general, but overall a
nice mailbox format.

I know of no Ruby library to handle it, though the semantics should be
about 7 lines of ruby code, with error handling.

Be aware there's a Maildir++ format, which has subfolders and quotas. In
my opinion, neither are well implemented and are vastly ugly, but they
work much more easily than mboxes.

Maildir++ works well for me.

Easiest way to deliver in this format is to use 'deliverquota' from the
courier-imap package. From Ruby you'd use IO.popen to pass it a message.

Regards,

Brian.
 
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Josef 'Jupp' Schugt

Saluton!

* (e-mail address removed); 2003-09-17, 21:24 UTC:
- - I'm pretty sure the rmail library can do this. Look in RAA. or
here

http://www.lickey.com/rubymail/

- - Booker C. Bense

You did notice that my message was sent on 2003-08-07 13:34:54?
Date is beginning of message ID :->

My web pages don't work? See my signature.

Gis,

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
 
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Guest

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Saluton!

* (e-mail address removed); 2003-09-17, 21:24 UTC:

You did notice that my message was sent on 2003-08-07 13:34:54?
Date is beginning of message ID :->

- - I sent that reply back in August via the newsgroup
comp.lang.ruby. Must be something wierd in the
mail <-> news gateway.

_ Booker C. Bense

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Josef 'Jupp' Schugt

Saluton!

* (e-mail address removed); 2003-09-18, 18:13 UTC:
- - I sent that reply back in August via the newsgroup
comp.lang.ruby. Must be something wierd in the
mail <-> news gateway.

Indeed something *very* wierd.

Before replying I did take a look at the header of your message.

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:52:30 +0900

I also did take a look at the message ID but it did not show
something that reminded me of a date.

I saw the mail address

(e-mail address removed)

but Aug.08.03 has several interpretation - date address was created,
date it expires, whatever.

My web pages don't work? See my signature.

Gis,

Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
 

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