Re: How to automatically delete empty maildirs?
On date Thursday 2007-01-18 14:36:17 +1100, Cameron Simpson muttered:
> On 11Jan2007 17:20, Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | Yes, I'm using procmail and it creates a new maildir when it has to
> | deliver a message into a not existing maildir.
> |
> | My problem depends on the fact that I have many maildirs setted as
> | mailboxes (using the mailboxes command) and I would like not to display
> | them in the buffy view when they don't contain messages.
> |
> | But rethinking at it maybe it would be better to avoid to delete them,
> | and simply not to display empty maildirs/mailboxes in the buffy view
> | (an idea for mutt-dev).
>
> It might be better, but absent that I have a script called "rm0maildir" which
> removes a maildir if it is empty:
>
> http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/bin/rm0maildir
>
> It uses a few other scripts from the same directory. You could install the
> whole lot, or pick and choose what you want.
>
> Of course this isn't integrated into mutt at all, so you'd need to run it by
> hand somehow.
Thanks Cameron, I'll give it a try.
An idea could be to delete the empty maildirs when exiting mutt, but
it's not completely safe (since a procmail process could be delivering
mails into a removed maildirs right in that moment).
Cheers
--
Stefano Sabatini
Linux user number 337176 (see http://counter.li.org)