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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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INCM(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   INCM(1)

NAME
incm - Incorporating new mails for Mew SYNOPSIS
incm [options] DESCRIPTION
The incm utility incorporates new mails from the mbox or the maildir to Mew's inbox folder. The options are as follows: -a Retrieve all mails from maildir/{cur,new} for maildir. -b Backup mails. mbox: No truncate mbox file. maildir: To maildir/cur directory. -c Use the Content-Length: field, instead of the "From " line, as a mail separator for mbox. -d path Path to mbox/maildir. If path is a file, mbox is assumed. If path is a directory, maildir is assumed. -m path The same as the -d option. -s Read one mail from stdin instead of mbox/maildir. -i inboxdir A path to the inbox directory. -u Don't touch ".mew-mtime". -f Preserve Unix From (Envelope Sender) line in mbox case. -p mode Specify file mode that creates in mbox case. -o Use the suffix when creating messages. -x suffix Use this suffix. -h Display this help message. -v Display the version. mbox For mbox, the mail separator is "From " in the beginning of lines. The incm utility does not convert ">From " to "From " in the beginning of lines in the body. On Solaris, Content-Length: should be used with the -c option to tell the end of mail. To lock mbox, a lock file("<user>.lock"), flock() or lockf(), and open(O_EXLOCK) are used. maildir For maildir, no lock and no separator are necessary. Consider the following situation: cur/{1,2} new/{3,4} Executing incm without the options results in: cur/{1,2} new/{} to inbox: {3,4} Executing incm with the -a option results in: cur/{} new/{} to inbox: {1,2,3,4} Executing incm with the -b option results in: cur/{1,2,3,4} new/{} to inbox: {3,4} Executing incm with the -a option and the -b option results in: cur/{1,2,3,4} new/{} to inbox: {1,2,3,4} So, if both options are specified, messages are retrieved multiple times. December 25, 2001 INCM(1)