Can mutt be persuaded to use a sensible maildir hierarchy?

[Kurt Hackenberg]

On 2020-09-23 04:07, Chris Green wrote:

> I think I might try that second idea, I can run mb2md (as you say)
> 2354 times and get the layout I want.  Then I can try mutt on it and
> see if it's practical.


Does mb2md convert message attributes? (Message has been read, message 
has been replied to, etc.)

In mbox files, I believe Mutt stores that stuff in the common but 
non-standard headers Status:, X-Status:, and X-Label:. Maildir instead 
encodes much of that in message pathnames. Basic maildir has no way to 
encode labels/keywords, but Dovecot has added its own mechanism for 
that. I don't know how Mutt stores labels in maildir.