Can mutt be persuaded to use a sensible maildir hierarchy?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 23Sep2020 09:11, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>> I don't browse from within mutt (but see Kevin's reply) but I do have 
>> a
>> directory hierarchy. Admittedly it is shallow and does not have Maildirs
>> inside Maildirs, but my own folders are like this:
>>
>>     ~/mail/foldername           # top level "current" folders
>>     ~/mail/OLD/YYYY/foldername  # archived folders
>>     ~/mail/O/foldername         # this year's archived folders
>>
>> I've just got (d)elete bound to move messages into
>> "O/current-folder-name", and "O" is just a symlink to
>> "OLD/the-current-year".
>>
>> So no Maildirs inside Maildirs, but several subdirectories.
>>
>I don't think I want Maildirs inside Maildirs, mbox can't do that so I
>don't expect it.

Then you should be fine. Make whatever structure you'd like.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>