I am mostly happy now using maildir instead of mbox, the advantages just about outweigh the disadvantages for me.
However one thing is still annoying me and it feels as if there should be a way to fix it or work around it. With mbox when a mailbox has no more messages in it and you have the save_empty unset then the mailbox disappears. Is there no way to get the same effect with maildir? It's a real nuisance if it's not possible as I create quite a few mailboxes which I want to disappear after use. E.g. I have a 'pending' folder where I store threads I want to be able to refer to for a few days (or check on action, etc.) however when the mailbox is finished with I want to be able to delete the messages and get rid of the mailbox otherwise my 'pending' folder gets cluttered with dozens of old mailboxes. Deleting them manually is messy and awkward. I have a similar problem with my 'freecycle' folder where I keep threads relating to stuff I give away on freecycle, when the stuff has gone I want to delete the messages and get rid of the mailbox. I know I could run an overnight script to remove empty maildirs (though it's not totally trivial to do) but it seems such a obvious thing that an MUA could/should do that it surprises me it's missing from mutt. Well, it's half missing, it does it for mbox so it's obviously seen as useful. -- Chris Green
