Maildir/new Properties

Hi,

I am encountering a problem and I can't figure out if it is my code's fault or just a property of Maildir/new.

What I am doing is writing a filter that filters new mail I fetch off a server and then writing the mail that passes the filter's check into Maildir/new. When I test this filter though, I notice that Maildir/new is getting flushed everytime I write a new email into it. Is this due to an error in my code or a property of Maildir/new I am unfamiliar with?

Thx

I'm not sure what you mean by "flushed": do you mean that any previous email in the directory gets deleted? Or does it get moved to Maildir/cur ? Either way, this isn't an inherent property of Maildir; it's just a few directories on disk. There must be another process that's doing this. If there's a POP3 server running, possibly this account is being accessed via POP3 whilst you're writing the mails?


In any event, if you're writing a filter like the one you describe you shouldn't write to the Maildir directly; assuming you're using qmail, invoke qmail-local with the appropriate arguments, which will handle the task of writing the mail to the user's Maildir in the correct fashion.