Writing directly to email

[Brenden Conte]

Theoretically that would work, but unfortunately every client cdoes
things differently - especially caching.  Therefore any "nonstandard"
behavior is likely to cause different results for different clients.

-Brenden

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 20:32, Eli Cantu wrote:
> Quoting noel at rescommunes.ca:
> 
> > I was wondering if it was at all possible to pipe text form something like
> > logging into an email file with out screwing things up for Cyrus.
> >
> > For example, say i have a crown tab that appends new mail.err data to the
> > file /var/spool/imap/m/user/me/1. with just simple stdout redirection >>.
> >
> 
> 
> I just tried it on a message in my Trash directory. I appended using >>
> 
> I did not see the additional text I appended when I checked the message.  I then
> opened up the file in vi. I can see the appended text, it just doesn't show up
> in the mail client (imp). So I added two '^M's at the bottom, just as there
> originally was. Still no luck.  I deleted the message, and it deleted normally.
> 
> hmmmm.
> 
> e
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