Hi, On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Jeff King wrote: > 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? For the record, I am using Git to manage my mails, and never had any problems after installing a hook which marks new empty directories with .gitignore. Ciao, Dscho -- 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
