Whats the difference between presort and multidrop inc-styles?
The main difference between presort and multidrop is: with presort, you don’t need a ~/.forward that pipes your messages to slocal because exmh will run slocal for you. The second difference is that the presort scheme assumes that messages are completely routed into folders, either with the + syntax (slocal patch required) or by piping messages through rcvstore in the .maildelivery specification. The multidrop scheme assumes you append messages to dropbox files with the ‘>’ or ‘file’ command in your .maildelivery file. Thus your options are: • Use slocal in your .forward, pipe your messages to rcvstore in .maildelivery, and have exmh do background flist updates. • Use slocal in your .forward, append messages to files in .maildelivery, specify files to folders mapping in .xmhcheck, and have exmh do background multidrop. • Empty .forward, pipe your messages to rcvstore in your .maildelivery, and have exmh do background presort. • Note that the following DOES NOT WORK empty .forward, a
