[jakob at crt.se: Re: [PATCH] Maildir support]

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

Personally, (Just my IMHO) CheckMail should go away.  There are too
many different formats and it should not be SSHD's job to understand
them.  It's biff and other evil program's responsiblity to do such
things.

- Ben

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Kevin Sindhu wrote:

> Jakob Schlyter wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 pete at more.net wrote:
> >
> > > As he said in the original patch, whether you want to support the MAIL
> > > var is another question, but if you're going to, it should be done
> > > correctly for both mbox and mailder.
> >
> > if we add support for maildir, why not support other mailbox formats as
> > well? when should we stop? if someone thinks the answer is to start adding
> > support for mbx, mh and others - think again - this is a remote login
> > program, not a mail client.
>
> I somewhat agree with your argument, but still we already have
> CheckMail in sshd code. Following your argument, one may be tempted to
> take that support out as well...I mean, why have CheckMail in the
> first place?
>
> Personally, I don't see any "major" harm. *Shrug*
>
> My 2 cents
>
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