> > That is weird, I do not have explanation. I would try maildir as Kyle
> > suggested.
> This works like a charm! The mail is marked with 'N' in the folder view
> and everything!
At least we have something.
> > You can try with mailbox format in similar way,
> This didn't work. Strange.
I don't know mutt internals well enough to help you dig deeper.
> > If even this fails, I'm out of ideas and I would try newer mutt
> > version.
>
> So the easiest way out would be to switch to maildir format?
> Are there any advantages/disadvantages? Will it be easy to migrate to
> maildir with procmail and everything?
Well, mailbox is one huge file, maildir is directory full of small
files. If your filesystem has troubles with may files in dir, maildir
can be slow. Deleting mail from the middle of huge mailbox can be slow,
as it has to overwrite whole file (maybe mutt is here more clever and
just leaves space in the place of removed mail ? I don't know).
Transition from mailbox to maildir and vice versa is simple, there is
many tools (and you can use mutt just to copy all the mail to the other
format). If I remember correctly procmail, it's enough to name your
mailbox with trailing slash ("spam/" instead of "spam") and it will use
maildir format.
> Anyhow, using maildirs would feel like quitting...
I know that feeling, I had to dig inside mutt's guts few times (just to
find out that my header cache is in wrong encoding for example ;)).
Be warned that mutt's source is not easy to follow.
But hopefully someone who knows mailbox internals can tell you where to
look.
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Vlad
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