From nicholas.cole at gmail.com  Thu Aug  9 22:43:32 2012
From: nicholas.cole at gmail.com (Nicholas Cole)
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 21:43:32 +0100
Subject: [Email-SIG] Maildir subdirectories
Message-ID: <CAAu18hfe7VzCVgosq4dCQNrE6z+ZhKCukOw8RwcGWg9XA5hTtA@mail.gmail.com>

Dear List,

As the documentation for mailbox.Maildir notes:

>>>>>>
Maildir mailboxes contain three subdirectories, namely: tmp, new, and
cur. Messages are created momentarily in the tmp subdirectory and then
moved to the new subdirectory to finalize delivery. A mail user agent
may subsequently move the message to the cur subdirectory and store
information about the state of the message in a special ?info? section
appended to its file name.
<<<<<<

Unless I am reading the source wrongly, however, the library doesn't
actually provide a way to do this.  MaildirMessage.set_subdir()
affects new messages, but doesn't seem to be a way to actually move a
message from 'new' to 'cur'.

What is the approved way to do this?

Best wishes,

Nicholas