Re: Folder management and archiving
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On Tuesday, February 20 at 12:09 PM, quoth Eur Ing Chris Green:
> I have a moderately deep (say three or four levels) hierarchy of
> saved mail. I want some easy[ish] way of creating new directories
> and/or moving existing directories and folders within the hierarchy.
> Is there anything available for doing this?
If you access your mail via IMAP, this is easy (<rename-mailbox>,
<create-mailbox> and so forth). If you access your mail locally, the
easiest way for *creating* a mailbox is to put messages into it (i.e.
if you put messages into a mailbox that doesn't exist, mutt will
create it). That's the best way to rename mailboxes if you're not
using IMAP: tag all the messages in a mailbox and save them to the new
name. Deleting the old mailbox can either be trivial (if you're using
mbox and you have $save_empty=no, then empty mbox files are deleted),
or simply something that mutt doesn't handle (though I think I
remember someone creating a patch that made $save_empty apply to other
mailbox types as well).
~Kyle
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