Re: mail directory structures in mutt

[Christian Holtje <docwhat@xxxxxxxx>]

* Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx) [040730 07:11]:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 05:15:27PM +0530, Abhay Pradhan wrote:
> > umm..has anybody ever felt the need for this? i mean, creating
> > directories on the fly? or is there another solution which i can adopt?
> > 
> Yes, I most definitely have, I think I have even asked about it here
> in the past.

It would be a good usability feature to ask the user:
"Directory mail/foo doesn't exist.  Should I create it?"

It is what the user would expect.  Forcing the user to use a shell
escape isn't very friendly to the user.

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