Name of email file format

Andy Saxena andyML at nyc.rr.com
Mon Oct 21 03:44:29 EDT 2002


On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 02:16:15PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
> >    Id call it Cyrus mailbox format ... (CMF)
> >    But prehaps CMU have their own name.
> > 
> > We don't call it anything. It's just the mail store. Since only Cyrus
> > programs access it, it really doesn't matter to us.
> 
> That's probably best.  If you name it, people will think they wrote
> something that conforms to it or something else equally stupid.  
> 
> The only proper way to interact with the Cyrus mail store is through Cyrus,
> and that should not change IMHO.

Okay, thanks for the clarification. The trouble is that it causes a few
hiccups when doing comparisons with Courier, which is based on Maildir.

Not giving it a name works for me.

-Andy




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