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+From: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>\r
+To: James Vasile <james@hackervisions.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] Skip dot files in `notmuch new`\r
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+On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:11:53 -0400, James Vasile <james@hackervisions.org> wrote:\r
+> No known mail client or fetch tool stores mail in dot files, because\r
+> files that start with '.' are usually used to store metadata\r
+> (i.e. state or configuration) as opposed to subject-matter data.\r
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+Dovecot stores folders in directories starting with . though.\r
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+ Tom\r