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M2dir: Treating mails as files without going crazy
Sometime recently I complained about Maildir. You can go read the post, but the executive summary is that I think Maildir uses an actively user-hostile directory structure and extremely convoluted filenames that do not convey any meaning at all.
You can go read the post, but the executive summary is that I think Maildir uses an actively user-hostile directory structure and extremely convoluted filenames that do not convey any meaning at all. In combination with the “from” address, I am confident that, given a moderate amount of file names, I could pin-point the one I am looking for just from the filename. More seriously, of course, you might live someplace that uses a different calendar, doesn’t use Arabic numerals, or maybe you just don’t want any date in the filename at all.
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