Re: maildir structure and change dir
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:27:11AM +0100, M. Mueller wrote:
> > in there, but that's it. Some IMAP server folks came out with the idea
> > of this "extended Maildir" or "Maildir++" or whatever but that doesn't
> > make it right. Is it a big deal? I don't know for sure; mutt tries to
> > be liberal about what it accepts and seems to be able to handle it. But,
> > then, you have this little xyg problem...
>
> No warts for me right now thank you. I converted all of my mailboxes to
> be subdir directly from the folder and c-<tab> navigation works
> predictably now. I create the impression of levels in the names; for
> example, =Maildir/xyg.client.timecards/
>
> Now when I enter c-<tab> in any mailbox folder I get the entire list I
> specify using "mailboxes" command in .muttrc. It's flat structure instead of
> an hierarchy. The GUI email clients I've used are hierarchical.
The strange 'flat' maildir hierarchy you see with '.' delimiters is an
artefact of the Courier mailserver and some other software. It's a
valid approach to a maildir hierarchy but it isn't required. I use
maildir with mutt and procmail and I have a genuine directory hiearchy
of maildirs which works perfectly well (and is created by procmail and
mutt).
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)