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Re: Need for help about the "/root/sent is not a mailbox" issue

Kyle thanks!
you are really a great person!

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Saturday, June 14 at 08:34 PM, quoth Awflasher(GuoQirui):
>>But then, I cannot even send anything now. It told me that:
>>
>> /root/sent is not a mailbox
>>
>>But why? What's a "mailbox" ? Can anyone give me some tips? Thanks
>>very much in advance!
>
> A mailbox is a place to store messages, and mutt can understand four
> types of mailbox: mbox, maildir, MMDF, and MH. Each kind of mailbox is
> structured in a specific way to facilitate the operations that you
> want mailboxes to perform (i.e. delivering new messages and reading
> random messages). By "facilitate", I mean that in most cases the
> internal structure is absolutely required in order to avoid corrupting
> messages.
>
> A plain empty folder is NOT a valid mailbox.
>
> If you're curious, I'll explain the types of mailboxes that mutt
> supports.
>
> An mbox is a flat text file. There are requirements on the contents of
> the file and the format of the messages so that each message can be
> safely distinguished from the others. Message tags (e.g. "replied",
> "new", "seen", etc.) require modifying the content of the message.
>
> An MMDF mailbox is similar to an mbox, but has different methods of
> distinguishing distinct messages. Again, tagging a message requires
> modifying the content of the message.
>
> An MH mailbox is a folder containing email messages in separate files.
> This solves several problems associated with mbox, but adds different
> ones. For example, in order to prevent concurrent message deliveries
> from writing to the same file, a special non-message file is stored in
> the directory with the name ".mh_sequences" which has a special
> internal format. Again, tagging a message requires modifying the
> content of the message.
>
> A Maildir mailbox is like an MH mailbox, but has a unique way of
> delivery that makes unique filenames easier to generate without
> locking. Its structure is a folder containing three sub-folders with
> specific names (i.e. "cur", "new", and "tmp"). Message tags in a
> Maildir are appended to the message's filename.
>
> ~Kyle
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