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

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From: Andrew Wilson
Subject: Re: [siesta-dev] ezmlm archive format (colobus integration).
Date: 02:19 on 11 Aug 2003
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 07:01:16PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote:
> A little while ago now Arthur pointed me at colobus[0], which is the nntp
> server that nntp.perl.org and news.php.net use.  It's really quite
> nifty, and all that good stuff, but it expects to get ezmlm archives.
> 
> 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?  
> 
> One which works out to be just another way to say "that directory" as
> foo/. is would be just groovy.

Linux and dos (possibly others) ignore a double // in a path, so

/mail/foo//

is the directory /mail/foo. Double trailing slash could be used to
mean ezmlm.

andrew
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