Re: How to navigate subfolders?

["Larry Alkoff" <labradley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your response Nicolas.  My comments below.

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:47:52 +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:

>* Larry Alkoff <labradley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2004-06-15 15:41 -0500]:
>> I have read that maildirs should have _only_ cur, new and tmp subdirectories
>> but they work just fine with other subdirectories and suspect that was just 
>> a purist talking.
>
>No, a correct maildir must not contain other subdirectories. Just
>consider a maildir a blackbox and do not mess with its internals.

All I know is that nested maildirs seem to work just fine.
The only problem is navigating.


>> What do people do with mbox subfolders?  Aren't they typically setup with
>> sub and sub-sub folders which you navigate into to read the single file?
>
>Mail/folder1
>Mail/folder1/folder21
>Mail/folder1/folder21/maildir121
>Mail/folder1/folder21/maildir122
>Mail/folder1/folder21/maildir123
>...
>Mail/folder1/maildir11
>Mail/folder1/maildir12
>Mail/folder1/maildir13
>...
>Mail/folder2
>Mail/folder2/maildir21
>Mail/folder2/maildir22
>Mail/folder2/maildir23
>...
I understand the subfolder setup but cannot understand how to use them.
How do I navigate?
Can it be done automatically somehow?

In my case, there are two main accounts.
>From what you have said above, my mail list account would look like this:

email_account1
         maildirs: 
                Inbox, Drafts, Outbox, Save, Sent_mail, Spam, Trash
        not maildirs:  
                Mailing_lists
                        not maildirs: Ham, Automation, LInux, Windows
                        maildirs:  Cable, Libretto

Does this look correct?
How do I distinguish between maildirs and non-maildirs?  Color?
And mainly the navigation.  Is there another way besides drilling down every 
time
I want to look at a mailbox?

The mail actually came over with a single
cp -R  /mnt/c:/mail   ~/Mail
and everything was in the right order except I had to make a script to move 
the mail from the Linux folders maildir to maildir/new.
It's going to be a lot harder to move messages by hand into this weird mix of 
maildirs and non-maildirs.

Please forgive me for asking all these questions but I have a pretty large 
volume of mail,
mostly from the mailing lists,
and I want to design it correctly the first time.

Thanks for your time and help,
Larry Alkoff

                



Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX