On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 03:58:46AM -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > So, let's say I take your suggestion. > > $ touch ~/Maildir/new/.exists > $ git add ~/Maildir/new/.exists && git commit -m "La di da" > > Now a spec-compliant Maildir user agent will attempt to deliver this new > "email message" of zero bytes into the mail spool and assign it a message > UID. Doing so will remove it from Maildir/new. No. The maildir spec says: A unique name can be anything that doesn't contain a colon (or slash) and doesn't start with a dot. -- http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html where a "unique name" is the filename used for a message. In practice, every maildir implementation I have seen ignores files starting with a dot. Do you have one that doesn't? -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html