On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 21:52:52 +1030 Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2020-10-17 at 20:48 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > 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 > > I wouldn't mess with telling software to use a different hostname than > it expects, you might find you break some aspect of how it uses the > network. > > > But if it does not matter, then I do not need to worry at all. > > Doesn't matter to the mail client. It just wants unique filenames per > email, and the different hostnames help. It might help you, too, if > you ever had to debug a mail issue. You'd be able to tell where a > message came from simply by reading the filename. > > But, as I said. Generally, you don't see the filenames of emails, you > use an email program that's an interface. > > There's a syntax to the email filenames for maildir: There's a unique > id for each message, that's a lengthy part of the filename, it can be > construed from hostnames and datestamps. And there's suffixes added > which are flags for message statuses (e.g. that it's been read). > > Horsing around with the filenames just risks doing something that > causes a failure. It's not like the rest of the filename is a > particular sane thing for humans to read, anyway. It's all just a big > long code. Thanks, Tim! I agree with you that that is the safer option. Btw, do you know if Maildir folders can have a mixture of files and sub-folders. So, let me explain: some of my sylpheed mh folders have messages in them as well as sub-folders. So, my question is: is it acceptable to have a Maildir folder that has cur/ new/ and tmp/ in addition to subfolder inside which is the same format? Many thanks again and best wishes, Ranjan _______________________________________________ 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
