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Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc



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On Monday, February  2 at 06:17 PM, quoth Derek Martin:
> Another notable difference is in new mail notification and mailbox 
> switching. Mutt's maildir implementation is better at remembering 
> that you have new mail than its mbox implementation is...  The mbox 
> implementation "forgets" that you have unread mail in an mbox folder 
> once you have visited a folder and left it, whereas maildir 
> remembers.

And, as we've been discussing recently, mutt's mbox implementation is 
forced to corrupt messages by appending > to lines that begin with the 
five characters: "From ".

~Kyle
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