Can mutt be persuaded to use a sensible maildir hierarchy?
Chris Green
cl at isbd.net
Tue Sep 22 17:30:52 UTC 2020
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 05:46:53PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> Does mutt still use the (IMHO silly) maildir hierarchy where mail
> 'folders' are simply represented by another '.' and name in the
> maildir directory name?
>
> Is there some way I can get to use real directories to represent my
> hierarchy of mail? I manually rearrange my mail sometimes and to deal
> with very long directory names isn't really practical. For example I
> might decide to move mail as follows:-
>
> ~/Mail/folder/travel/zelmaFrance
>
> to
>
> ~/Mail/folder/travel/france/zelma
>
> With real directories such a move isn't too difficult but with the
> default maildir naming it becomes painful.
>
> Some software I believe does work the way I want with maildir but the
> dotted hierarchy seems to be becoming the standard. Is there no way
> round this? I'd really like to move to maildir but I really can't see
> it being practical for me as it is.
>
I just run mb2md on my existing mail folders, I ended up with a single
directory (~/Maildir) containing 2354 files mostly with ridiculously
long names! This just isn't a sensible way to organise my mail.
--
Chris Green
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