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Re: mutt - slow mbox'es



Am 2004-07-21 16:00:31, schrieb Andre Bonhote:
>Hi Thomas
>
>On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:48:06PM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
>
>[...]
>> Or do the only reasonable thing and switch to maildir.
>
>Hm ... interesting point. I have 56 mboxes configured in mutt, some of
>them quite big (>2000 Mails). I started to split them off with `date`,
>creating monthly mail files to solve the problem of mutt starting up
>slowly.
>
>Delivery is done via fetchmail/procmail. What's the topology of a
>maildir? Can I tell fetchmail to deliver to different maildirs? Can I
>convert my mboxes to maildir?

procmail can deliver to mailbox (standard), maildir and mh

  ____ ( 'deliver to mailbox' ) ________________________________________
 /
|  :0:
|  * ^X-BeenThere:.*procmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|  procmail
 \______________________________________________________________________

The mailbox is a file with the name "mailbox" and needs locking ":0:"

  ____ ( 'deliver to maildir' ) ________________________________________
 /
|  :0
|  * ^X-BeenThere:.*procmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|  procmail/
 \______________________________________________________________________

The mailbox is a directory with the nam "mailbox" and it contains 
three subdirectories "tmp", "new" and "cur".  To get the later one, 
you need to attach a "/" to the end of the mailbox name and does 
not need locking ":0"


>Thanks a lot
>
>André

Greetings
Michelle

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