On date Wednesday 2007-08-01 12:34:33 +0100, Chris G muttered: > 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.
Hi Chris, I faced the same problem some time ago, this is one of the features I mostly miss in mutt. I discussed it on this list some time ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.user/26323/ HTH, cheers. PS Do you know if there is a way to get the gmane address from a correspoding mail id? -- mutt random tip #6 A signed message is considered verified only *when all its parts are signed*. A partially signed message (for example with a mailing-list final attachment) is not considered sure, so the "s" flag won't became upcased even when the other parts have been verified against the signature.
