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maildir question
Hi,

I had a server hosting my website which kept all of my mail in a folder of my home dir called "mail". In that folder was "cur", "new", "tmp"... Which as I understand is the maildir format.

I just recently switched to a new server, and am attempting to transfer all my mail over, however, on the new server-- there is a "Maildir" folder..

So question #1 is, why does one server call it "mail", and another "Maildir".. Where is it defined that mail goes to these folders, and does it matter what the name of the folder is?

Regardless-- I have copied over the contents of "mail" to the "maildir" folder, but I looked in my "new" folder, and find:

tons of files such as:
1160512586.H576706P3408.server4825.handsonwebhosting.com

handsonwebhosting was my previous host, so I am curious, will it be a problem for this file to be in my new webhost's maildir since it says .handsonwebhosting? or will it be readable and work fine???

I am a little lost about this stuff... Thank you in advance.

-patrick
 
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mhpath

mhpath(1mh)															       mhpath(1mh)

Name
       mhpath - print full pathnames of MH messages and folders

Syntax
       mhpath [ +foldername ] [ msgs ] [ -help ]

Description
       Use the command to display the full pathname of the specified folder.  If you do not specify a folder, displays the pathname of the current
       folder.

       If you specify a message with its message number, displays the pathname of the specified message.  You can also specify a  number  of  mes-
       sages,  or  a range of messages.  If the top of the range that you specify is greater than the last message in the folder, displays as much
       of the specified range as possible.

       Additionally can take a keyword or a sequence name.  The following keywords are acceptable:

       first	 The first message in the folder.

       last	 The last message in the folder.

       new	 The message after the last message in the folder.  You cannot use new as part of a message range.

       cur	 The current message in the folder.

       prev	 The message before the current message.

       next	 The message after the current message.

       all	 All of the messages in the folder.

Options
       -help	 Prints a list of the valid options to this command.

Examples
       In the following example, displays message 3 in the folder
       % mhpath +inbox 3
       /r/phyl/Mail/inbox

       The following example displays the pathname of messages 2 to 5 in the current folder:
       % mhpath 2-5
       /r/phyl/Mail/inbox/2
       /r/phyl/Mail/inbox/3
       /r/phyl/Mail/inbox/4
       /r/phyl/Mail/inbox/5

Profile Components
       Path:   To determine your Mail directory

Files
       The user profile.

See Also
       folder(1mh)

																       mhpath(1mh)