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Jason Stokes wrote:
> 
> Currently my qmail mail delivery agent is set up to deliver to an mbox
> maildrop each user's directory.  From there, MH incs the mail to be read by
> exmh.  It works fine, but the qmail documentation has ominous warnings about
> the reliability of the mbox format and suggests configuring qmail to use
> qmail's custom "maildir" maildrop format.  The only problem is, I don't know
> if it's possible to set up "inc" to read that format.  Is it, and if so, how
> do I set it up?

[CC-ing to news in case others are interested]

You can a) replace MH's inc with a wrapper script like 
maildir2mbox ; inc "$@"
b) hack exmh to run maildir2mbox before inc (Tcl isn't too difficult
to understand)
c) use procmail.

I use c) and strongly recommend it.  Added benefits are spam-filtering,
acknowledgements etc. You need 
| preline procmail
in your ~/.qmail and a working procmail setup.  Recommended procmail
recipe delivering into MH's mail folder looks e.g. like this:

:0:$MAILDIR/inbox/.mh_sequences.$LOCKEXT
* ^TOyour@email.address
| /usr/lib/mh/rcvstore +inbox

Procmail can put mail into the right mh folder but it doesn't update
unseen-sequence, and exmh doesn't like that. Hence the use of rcvstore 
for delivery.  Also, with this setup it's possible that multiple
rcvstores will be updating unseen-sequence at the same time, messing
it up -- hence locking the file (rcvstore doesn't do that apparently).

Note that this doesn't use qmail's maildir -- incoming messages
are passed to procmail and delivered to mh folders right away.

HTH
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