MUA Filters vs Procmail filters[was] RE: Mailing list procmail recipe

[Ow Mun Heng]

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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of William Hooper
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:58 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: MUA Filters vs Procmail filters[was] RE: Mailing list
> procmail recipe
> 
> 
> 
> Ow Mun Heng said:
> 
> >> I believe it would also be more efficient when using IMAP 
> because the
> >> mails get moved on the server instead of the client having to
> >> move them,
> >> but it might not be that big of a difference.
> >
> > How about Archiving the emails?
> 
> Huh?

if in mbox format, I go tar cf mail.tar.gz /var/spool/mail/username

> 
> > How do we do that using Maildir format?
> > (one of the reason I've not moved my laptop's mail format 
> to maildir)
> 
> Again, IMAP is a protocol and independant of storage format.
> 
> That said, it is my understanding that Maildir just stores 
> one message per
> file so you back up the files.

Sorry.. not IMAP, maildir format.

so.. tar -cf maidir.tar.gz /var/spool/maildir ???