Re: [siesta-dev] ezmlm archive format (colobus integration).

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From: Nicholas Clark
Subject: Re: [siesta-dev] ezmlm archive format (colobus integration).
Date: 00:08 on 11 Aug 2003
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 07:01:16PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote:

> I read through the colobus sources and got to
> Email::LocalDelivery::Ezmlm[1] quite easily.  I now have a small
> stumbling block, there's no standard way to indicate that a mail
> folder is really a ezmlm store just by the pathname.
> 
> The ones we do know (from Email::FolderType following in the
> footprints of procmail):
> 
>   /mail/foo    # mbox
>   /mail/bar/   # maildir
>   /mail/baz/.  # mh
> 
> Anyone know of one suitable for ezmlm, or want to invent one?  

Skimming that perl source, it's a directory, isn't it?
So we could call it /mail/foo and rely on the file/directory distinction
to disambiguate from mbox. Although this is getting rather overloaded.
(Or /mail/foo/./. - erk)

Nick

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