Mixing maildir and mbox
This follows on from my recent question about mutt not recognising new
mail which turned out to be due to the 'noatime' setting on the disk
drives in question.
I can solve the problem by switching to maildir, however I'd prefer
not to keep my saved/archived mail in maildir format, is it possible
(or sensible) to mix the two formats?
The mail delivery mechanism can be set up to deliver mail in maildir
format, this goes to a number of maildirs in a directory dedicated to
incoming mail (which are given to mutt by the 'mailboxes' command).
I believe mutt will be fine with this as it will recognise the
directory layout as maildir, it doesn't need to have the 'mbox-type'
variable set.
Then if/when I use mutt to save mail (in a separate directory
hierarchy) it will use the default mbox format.
Will this strategy work as I believe it will? Are there any serious
problems I haven't noticed? It has the advantages of maildir for the
areas where multiple processes/programs are likely to try and deliver
simultaneously and the advantages of mbox for the more static areas.
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx)