Mail delivery to non-mbox?

[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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-- Napoléon

[Aredridel]

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On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:58, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:

> Saluton!
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> Hi!
>=20
> 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.

[url]http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html[/url]

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]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:05:17AM +0900, Aredridel wrote:

> [url]http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html[/url]
>
> 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.

[Jos Backus]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:57:01AM +0900, Brian Candler wrote:

> 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.

Or safecat:

[url]http://budney.homeunix.net:8080/users/budney/linux/software/safecat.html[/url]

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[Josef 'Jupp' Schugt]

Saluton!

* bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Aug.08.03@telemark.slac.stan ford.edu; 2003-09-17, 21:24 UTC:

> - - I'm pretty sure the rmail library can do this. Look in RAA. or
> here
>
> [url]http://www.lickey.com/rubymail/[/url]
>
> - - 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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In article <20030917230557.GC1445@jupp%gmx.de>,
Josef 'Jupp' Schugt <jupp@gmx.de> wrote:

>Saluton!
>
>* bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Aug.08.03@telemark.slac.stan ford.edu; 2003-09-17, 21:24 UTC:

>> - - I'm pretty sure the rmail library can do this. Look in RAA. or
>> here
>>
>> [url]http://www.lickey.com/rubymail/[/url]
>>
>> - - Booker C. Bense

>
>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!

* bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Sep.18.03@telemark.slac.stan ford.edu; 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

bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Aug.08.03@telemark.slac.stan ford.edu

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
--
On 2003-09-24 the European Parliament is going to decide on a
software patent directive. As a protest my web pages will offline
from 2003-09-17 through 2003-09-24 (UTC, including end dates). This
includes but is not limited to the tldlib/extmath/rcalc homepage.