Maildir experience

[Jeremy Turner]

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With all the talk lately of Maildir and mbox, I wanted to share another
viewpoint.  I agree Maildir is the way to go, but I found one quirk with
it.  In a Maildir folder which you want to remove all messages, don't do:

rm -rf *

Since the filenames for Maildir are considerably long, using multiple
ones on a command line like that caused an error saying in effect that
my command was too long to process.  This worked however:

ls | xargs rm -rf

since it runs 'rm -rf filename' as a separate command.

Jeremy

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Jeremy Turner [ jeremy at linuxwebguy.com ]

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