How to 'move' a maildir mailbox?
Going on from my previous query and comments about maildir, is there
any way to move a maildir mailbox in mutt?
I need to do this for archiving and reorganising mail. For example I
have a 'shopping' directory where I keep mail related to internet
purchases, mostly organised by the name of the supplier. To keep
things manageable in the current shopping directory I need to move old
mails across to an archive hierarchy, in many cases this will mean a
whole supplier's mailbox will move if I haven't used that supplier
recently.
With mbox (and save_empty=no) this works fine, I select all the mails
in the mail folder, move them to where I want them to be and the
source mailbox disappears because it's empty. However with maildir
the mailbox doesn't disappear, this really is a pain because, after a
while, my shopping directory ends up cluttered with the names of lots
of suppliers I haven't used for a long time. Removing empty maildir
mailboxes is non-trivial if you have to do it manually, and it's error
prone.
Has anyone any suggestions on how this can be managed better? Ideally
I'd like it to happen auto-magically from within mutt but a utility to
remove empty maildir mailboxes would be better than nothing.
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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