Quoting Pablo Hoertner (pablo@xxxxxx): > > One solution for your problem is switching to Maildir/ mailformat. > it's a solution for what? It's a solution for the "mutt not showing mbox folders with seen but unread messages as newmail when using mbox folders"-problem. Nothing more. > i guess, it's not only about seeing new or rather unread mail after > reopeing mut, Correct. > but also about having a solution > for archiving your mail without having to open one single file with xxx > MB everytime you want to read your mail. Yes. It's quite easy removing old mail, and making backups of those removed mails with Maildir/ implementations since all mails are stored in separate files with a creation timestamp. > therefore, maildir may be good, but at least i want to have this > archive in mbox-format. Why would you want mbox-format backups of Maildir/ mailboxes? If you really want this, you could ofcourse do trics with procmail during the backup-making-process. > how do you use maildir for let's say the mail of the last week only and > archive the rest? I created a script that removes old mail from my Maildir/'s until there are 900 messages left in a mailbox. The removed messages are not really removed, but are archived in a bz2-file in a separate directory. I have yet to find an easy way for reading / searching these archives, but for now just grepping works... It's not that often that I need to search in my archives. > i assume deleting mail after a week shouldn't be a problem (i could > imagine a macro that does this for me) , but what about the second > point? is it okay just to copy you're mails with procmail to an mbox > and/or filter it seperately? You could move every old mail and pipe it through a procmail recipe that puts the messages in mbox format. This will be quite intensive though. > is the following enough for that purpose? Your recipe copies every mail to an archive mbox and your Maildir/. If that's what you want to achieve... > again: how can you archive mail in different mbox-folders than? I don't. And I don't want to. See my answer above. > would this make most of us happy? or is this a rather "dirty" solution? To be honest, I don't really understand your problem / question. With regards, Sander. -- | They're called wisdom teeth, because the experience makes you wise. | 1024D/08CEC94D - 34B3 3314 B146 E13C 70C8 9BDB D463 7E41 08CE C94D
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