Re: [Sheflug] mail strategies

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> mh is old technology, but with a good front end (xmh didn't used to
> be) can handle lots of mail; it's more oriented to rolling your own,
> though.  Easy to do lots of interesting stuff with scripts.

I use mh with exmh (TCL/TK) front end -- very nice -- can have nested folders 
(eg: Lists/ShefLinux, or Friends/Uni and Friends/Uni/Humor et al ...). Does 
pre-sort as well, though it's a convulted process my mail takes due to my use 
of qmail and a custom pre-sort program (qmail -> Maildir -> mbox -> mh). All 
the sorting is done at delivery into Maildir's. Need to convert them to mbox 
format so I can incorporate the mail into all these other folders (it's like 
a christmas tree when I start exmh with little blue highlights showing all 
the folders I have new mail in :)

mh can apparently be patched to support Qmail's native maildir but I've never 
bothered with it, else I could do straight qmail -> Maildir and never need to 
convert to mh format.

It ought to be noted as well that qmail's Maildir is also NFS-safe ... no 
locking problems :)

Chris...
ps, currently handling 1925 messages without a problem :)



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