Re: Does mutt have any concept of "where I am now"?
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:55:10PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:14:45AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:12:29PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> > >
> > > This presupposes the "extended Maildir" layout, I think. My directory
> > > layout is that I've just got a directory with subdirs, and at various
> > > places in the hierarchy there are normal Maildirs.
> > >
> > Yes, that's right. I hate the Courier/Dovecot way of not having real
> > sub-directories but delimiting with '.', it's OK (but why do it?) for
> > an IMAP server as the user doesn't see it but if you want to use the
> > hierarchy locally yourself it's a total pain.
>
> Well, if Mutt were extended (ha!) to grok extended Maildir format, then
> it could present the on-disk structure in any way we like. For example,
> it could fake directories at the '.' delimiters.
>
Yes, but if *I* want to do some housekeeping in the mail directories
it's a whole lot easier if they're real directories.
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Chris Green