[ILUG] managing mailing lists in mutt.

David Murphy drjolt+ilug at redbrick.dcu.ie
Tue Aug 7 12:03:00 IST 2001


Quoting <20010806215602.C20718 at antefacto.com>
by "John P. Looney" <john at antefacto.com>:

> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:11:14PM +0100, David Murphy mentioned:
> > Quoting <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108031401550.24129-100000 at dunlop.itg.ie>
> > by Paul Jakma <paulj at alphyra.ie>:
> > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Colin Whittaker wrote:
> > > > Compare against the creation time would be the obvious solution.
> > > unix doesn't keep a creation time :)
> > Doesn't maildir encode time information in the filename of each
> > message?
> 
>  That's actually 100% MDA dependant. But I think Courier Maildrop does.

http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
"A unique name has three pieces, separated by dots. On the left is the
result of time(). On the right is the result of gethostname(). In the
middle is something that doesn't repeat within one second on a single
host."

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