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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 18:17:18 +0000
From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lei: support reading MH for convert+import+index
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Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Nice, so eventually we should be able to specify the following instead of
> faking out a maildir?
> 
> watch=mh:/var/spool/mlmmj/list.name/archive

Yes, that's the plan.

> > inotify|EVFILT_VNODE watches aren't supported, yet, either.
> 
> In the case of mlmmj it's sufficient to watch the
> /var/spool/mlmmj/list.name/index file for updates, but I don't know how well
> this lends itself to other implementations (I am not at all familiar with MH).

Just watching the directory itself is sufficient (like Maildir)
and will report new files.  We just have to check /\A[0-9]+\z/