> > What you mention is true: maildrop is closely associated with maildirs > > (and it was due to one of my colleagues, who swears by maildir on any > > OS, that I came accross it). I intended to use mutt with maildirs, > > including a shared mail archive we keep, but did not get around to it. > > I tried Cygwin mutt 1.3.24 with maildirs and it did not seem to like the > ones generated by maildrop. If it did, this would "solve" (OK workaround) > any locking problems. > > Has anyone had success with mutt and maildirs? >
FWICT maildirs have some filename issues (illegal chars in the names) that Windows chokes on. I can get inboxes to work OK, but e.g. mutt puts ":"'s and ","'s in the filenames it tries to create in your "received" folder. I do have a build of 1.3.28 that works OK with its *own* inbox maildir. Do you want the EXE to try out? -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
