Re: [Nmh-workers] Does maildrop work correctly with nmh?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Martin,

> I am probably just setting up .mailfilter wrong, but so
> far, it doesn't seem to understand that it should behave in an
> mh way. It wants to put mail in a .mbox format in just about any
> directory except $HOME/Mail/folder/message# in the normal mh
> style.

http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/maildrop.html says

    maildrop knows how to deliver mail to an standard mailbox files;  it
    also knows how to deliver to maildirs.  A maildir is a
    directory-based mail format used by the Courier and Qmail mail
    servers.

A `maildir' isn't what nmh uses so you're left with a mailbox, but that
has a `From ' line before the headers, so again that's not nmh.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox

Perhaps maildrop can be told to use something else to do the storage, so
its filtering can still be used first?

Cheers, Ralph.