Re: How to implement save_empty on maildir?
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 06:43:52AM +0800, Wu, Yue wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:33:20PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > * Wu, Yue wrote:
> > > I want to let mutt deletes empty maildirs automatically, but 'save_empty'
> > > only
> > > works for mbox, why? How to achieve it for maildir?
> >
> > It doesn't work for maildir. I'm not sure why, but probably because
> > removing an empty maildir has the potential to break something as it
> > cannot be done atomically.
> >
> > For example, mutt could try to delete the subdirectories in this order:
> > new, cur, tmp. While mutt deletes new/ some other process writes a new
> > message into tmp/ which the delivery agent tries to move to new/ which
> > isn't there anymore.
> >
> > I guess not supporting it is the safest variant.
>
> But it's annoying all the groups show up in the view all the time, I just want
> to see the groups that have mails, others should be hiden or deleted.
>
It's one of my major gripes with maildir, there appears to be no way
to safely (as in maildirsafely) remove a maildir folder.
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Chris Green