[PATCH] Skip dot files in `notmuch new`

Tomi Ollila tomi.ollila at nixu.com
Thu Sep 1 22:40:57 PDT 2011


On Fri 02 Sep 2011 03:52, Tom Prince <tom.prince at ualberta.net> writes:

> On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:11:53 -0400, James Vasile <james at hackervisions.org> wrote:
>> No known mail client or fetch tool stores mail in dot files, because
>> files that start with '.' are usually used to store metadata
>> (i.e. state or configuration) as opposed to subject-matter data.
>
> Dovecot stores folders in directories starting with . though.

Just yesterday on irc I saw someone using ~/.mail/.sent/ though.

>   Tom

Tomi


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