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Re: Maildir question



* Chris Green <chris at areti.co.uk> [2003-11-17 16:30]:
> There seem to be two ways to implement a directory hierarchy in a
> maildir environment:-
> 
>     1 - Conventional directory hierarchy. A mailbox may contain both
>     the cur, tmp and new subdirectories *and* further maibox
>     subdirectories.
> 
>     2 - The dotted directory naming convention used by Courier (and
>     others) where each named mailbox is given a name like
>     topLevel.nextLevel.bottomlevel and these directories contain
>     *only* cur, tmo and new subdirectories.
> 
> Can mutt cope with both these approaches?  Are both these approaches
> 'correct'?

I've never used the second, and have been using Maildir and mutt
together for about three years.  I've also never seen a good explanation
for why the second is needed.

(darren)

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