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Re: MAIL, MAILPATH and maildir support

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From: Bruce Stephens <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: MAIL, MAILPATH and maildir support
Date: 03 Jun 1999 20:18:20 +0100
In-reply-to: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of "Thu, 3 Jun 1999 05:46:46 +0000"
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"Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I was about to gripe about how horribly inefficient this bit of code
> is, when I realized I'd forgotten that the existing support for
> directories is if anything worse.  Recursively stat() an entire
> directory tree??  Does anyone really make use of this feature?

Well, in a limited way, yes.  I have procmail deliver to a number of
files in a specific directory, and zsh checks that directory.  I'm
sure I'm not that unusual (I think it's a reasonably popular way to
set up Gnus, for example).

References:
- MAIL, MAILPATH and maildir support
  - From: Clint Adams
- Re: MAIL, MAILPATH and maildir support
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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