On 17Oct2020 20:48, Ranjan Maitra <maitra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 11:41:05 +1030 Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Fri, 2020-10-16 at 08:35 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> > According to this post here: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/maildir/ t >> > he filename has this "gator3018.hostgator.com" which I presume comes >> > from the hostname. How do I get this changed to something else >> > (unique, but not to the hostname)? Is this where mutt or procmail is >> > to be told to do this, how? >> >> I want to ask: Why do you care what the filenames are (that they have >> hostnames in them)? I was wondering this myself. I was imagining some aesthetic issue. >> The mail client and server certainly doesn't care, it just needs unique >> names. So if you can get mail files from machine A onto machine B, >> it'll just use them however they're named. They don't need to have the >> same filename as its hostname. > >Thanks, would it not matter if there is a combination of files in the two folders? I don't know, that is why I am asking. Doesn't matter. They just have to be unique and have a legal ,flags suffix. I've got a mix myself (historical change of the things writing messages). I'm having trouble getting at the qmail.org site, but on Wikipedia this section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir#Technical_operation describes the filename components which may be used to assemble a unique name. >> Trying to change maildir filenames requires care, so you don't break >> the mail system. And you use a mail client to read your messages, it >> gives you an interface where you don't need to know the filenames that >> it's making use of. > >There is one approach and that is set LD_PRELOAD to set the hostname as localhost.localdomain from this example in: https://catonmat.net/simple-ld-preload-tutorial >But if it does not matter, then I do not need to worry at all. I wouldn't worry, myself. The hostname component is useful for when mulitple hosts might be writing into the Maildir (eg over NFS to a shared spool). For a single host Maildir it isn't necessary. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
