[Novalug] overlay filesystem mechanism to present maildir format differently?
Mark Smith
mark@winksmith.com
Wed May 27 17:51:18 EDT 2015
hmm... i am currently storing email files in separate mbox formatted
files. i generally read these files with mutt:
i am moving to a maildir format stored under dovecot. this format uses
cur, new, tmp subdirectories and friends to store email. it's a bit
cumbersome to get to the actual maildir. i am also exporting the entire
directory structure on an NFS partition.
what i would really like would be to able to export my maildir directories
and have them look much more like my original directory structure.
in my head this is just a simple overlay file system that exposes just
the structure desired using regex pattern matching and a configuration
file or something like that. it feels like something that fuse can do
fairly easily and might have already been done in fact.
example maildir format structure:
A/.maildir/cur/f1
A/.maildir/cur/f2
A/.maildir/cur/f3
A/.maildir/new/
A/.maildir/tmp/
displayed:
A/f1
A/f2
A/f3
but honestly, I haven't really thought about it a lot yet. Is there
any tool already written that can do this in real time for me?
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Mark Smith
mark@winksmith.com
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