On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 10:42:34AM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 04:59:14AM +0000, Michael Elkins wrote: > > Limitations: > > - only works on maildirs > > Just my opinion obviously, and granted this is experimental, but: > > This is a deal-breaker for me. It adds yet another feature of mutt > that works differently or exclusively depending on the user's chosen > mailbox format. We haven't heard much about it lately, but the 1.6 > release was supposed to improve and (more importantly IMO) unify new > mail handling across folder formats, eliminating perhaps the biggest > inconsistency in how Mutt behaves with respect to different mail > folder formats. If that ever makes it in, it would be a giant step in > the right direction for Mutt. This feature, while only maildir is > supported, would be a small step in the wrong direction, IMO. > > If this were made to work uniformly independent of mail folder format, > that would be a different story; but personally I'd still rather see > new mail handling fixed first, and get 1.6 out.
I agree (using mbox format myself). -- Will Fiveash
