Asp Forum - Ruby and maildir

Michal Koudelka

2/7/2005 12:14:00 AM

Hi, Does anybody know about ruby library for working with maildirs?

I checked RAA but I found nothing :-(

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5 Answers

Dido Sevilla

2/7/2005 1:59:00 AM

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:13:42 +0900, mithrandir2003cz@gmail.com
<mithrandir2003cz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Does anybody know about ruby library for working with maildirs?
>
> I checked RAA but I found nothing :-(

I use rubymail (http://www.lickey.com...). Maildirs are a
helluvalot simpler than mboxes. A maildir is simply a directory with
three standard subdirectories under it named cur, new, and tmp. Each
of these directories contains one file per mail message, with a name
based on the epoch time. Rubymail + the standard library is more than
adequate to do any reasonable manipulation of a maildir very easily,
without an explosion of complexity.

Matt Armstrong

2/7/2005 4:57:00 AM

Dido Sevilla <dido.sevilla@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:13:42 +0900, mithrandir2003cz@gmail.com
> <mithrandir2003cz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Does anybody know about ruby library for working with maildirs?
>>
>> I checked RAA but I found nothing :-(
>
> I use rubymail (http://www.lickey.com...). Maildirs are a
> helluvalot simpler than mboxes. A maildir is simply a directory with
> three standard subdirectories under it named cur, new, and tmp. Each
> of these directories contains one file per mail message, with a name
> based on the epoch time. Rubymail + the standard library is more
> than adequate to do any reasonable manipulation of a maildir very
> easily, without an explosion of complexity.

RubyFilter (at http://www.lickey.com/r... ) can deliver new
mail to a Maildir. But neither RubyMail nor RubyFilter has code for
actually reading mail from a maildir (e.g. moving messages from "new"
to "cur", properly processing "tmp", etc. according to the Maildir
spec). That would be an interesting project!

But as mithrandir2003cz@gmail.com suggests above, it isn't that hard
to work with Maildirs since each message is in an individual file.

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ptkwt

2/7/2005 12:46:00 PM

In article <fd55348f050206175951105ccc@mail.gmail.com>,
Dido Sevilla <dido.sevilla@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:13:42 +0900, mithrandir2003cz@gmail.com
><mithrandir2003cz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, Does anybody know about ruby library for working with maildirs?
>>
>> I checked RAA but I found nothing :-(
>
>I use rubymail (http://www.lickey.com...). Maildirs are a
>helluvalot simpler than mboxes. A maildir is simply a directory with
>three standard subdirectories under it named cur, new, and tmp. Each
>of these directories contains one file per mail message, with a name
>based on the epoch time. Rubymail + the standard library is more than
>adequate to do any reasonable manipulation of a maildir very easily,
>without an explosion of complexity.
>

Sounds interesting... are there any utilities to translate mailboxes of
various sorts to mildirs? (like from the OSX mail program mboxes to
maildirs)

Phil

Christian Neukirchen

2/7/2005 2:04:00 PM

ptkwt@aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) writes:

> Sounds interesting... are there any utilities to translate mailboxes of
> various sorts to mildirs? (like from the OSX mail program mboxes to
> maildirs)

mbox to maildir conversion is usually done with formail(1) and
procmail(1).

> Phil
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Robert Klemme

2/7/2005 2:10:00 PM

<mithrandir2003cz@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20050207013635.GA13599@caladan.chello.upc.cz...
> Hi, Does anybody know about ruby library for working with maildirs?
>
> I checked RAA but I found nothing :-(

There's also Gurgitate-Mail which might be a basis if you want to cook
something yourself:
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/gurgi...

Kind regards

robert

comp.lang.ruby