popa3d-users - Re: Maildir support

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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 08:24:55 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Maildir support

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 10:01:00AM -0400, Cory Visi wrote:
> I am willing to do a patch for now. Maybe something you can audit when you
> have time.

OK.  If it's reasonably clean, I'll place such a patch in contrib/

> Can anyone recommend a particularly clean/secure implementation
> of Maildir-style mbox access? I looked at the Pine maildir.c and it's
> pretty sloppy.

I'd look at qmail-pop3d.

> I figure reusing the code is a better approach than starting from scratch.

I would start from scratch (for better consistency with the rest of
popa3d and to make sure I get to understand every minor issue), but
for an unofficial patch code reuse is fine.

> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Solar Designer wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 11:56:56AM -0400, Cory Visi wrote:
> > > Are there any plans to add Maildir-style mailbox support to popa3d?
> >
> > Basically, I would do it, but I just don't have the time (too many
> > other things to do, most related to community projects in some way)
> > and don't have any personal motivation.
> >
> > But it may happen eventually.

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