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Victor Sudakov vas at sibptus.ru
Fri Dec 14 09:40:28 UTC 2018


Cameron Simpson wrote:
>On 14Dec2018 11:40, Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote:
>>Kurt, once you've mentioned it. How do I create a maildir folder from
>>within mutt if my default $mbox_type is mbox?
>>
>>When I want to create a new folder "foo", I tag some messages and save
>>them to =foo, mutt asks whether to create "foo" but creates it in mbox
>>format per $mbox_type.
>
>Well you could make a macro to fiddle $mbox_type. Or fiddle it yourself.
>
>Or you could see my mboxify script elsewhere in this thread for adaption
>to your mbox->maildir wish. Its process is to make the maildir from the
>script (mkdir foo foo/tmp foo/cur foo/new) and _then_ invoke mutt to do
>the message move. 

Indeed, after pre-creating the mailbox with 
"mkdir -p ~/Mail/foo/{tmp,cur,new}" mutt can save into it.
The only problem left is dovecot's handling of both formats 
simultaneously.

> That way mutt doesn't make the mailbox and $mbox_type
>doesn't come into play.

Thank you!

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/


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