Re: Maildrop / Maildir naming standards

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:41:15AM +0200, Jerry Lundström wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm fiddeling with a patch for courier/maildrop for our systems to
> shorten the name of the dropped files and I just noticed that binc
> can't handle files begining with a dot and I was just wondering if
> this isnt recommended use in Maildir?

--8<-- http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
How are unique names created?
Unless you're writing messages to a maildir, the format of a unique
name is none of your business. A unique name can be anything that
doesn't contain a colon (or slash) and doesn't start with a dot.
-->8--

The next paragraphs describe how unique names should be created.


> And does anyone know of any other good maildrop-like program that
> can do regexp filtering of mail? (I'm hoping to drop courier-*).

It's certainly not good, but procmail can do it. Otherwise perhaps
you can cook something up with qtools?
http://www.superscript.com/qtools/intro.html


//Peter