On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:33:20PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: > Hi, > > * Wu, Yue wrote: > > I want to let mutt deletes empty maildirs automatically, but 'save_empty' > > only > > works for mbox, why? How to achieve it for maildir? > > It doesn't work for maildir. I'm not sure why, but probably because > removing an empty maildir has the potential to break something as it > cannot be done atomically. > > For example, mutt could try to delete the subdirectories in this order: > new, cur, tmp. While mutt deletes new/ some other process writes a new > message into tmp/ which the delivery agent tries to move to new/ which > isn't there anymore. > > I guess not supporting it is the safest variant.
But it's annoying all the groups show up in the view all the time, I just want to see the groups that have mails, others should be hiden or deleted. -- Hi, Wu, Yue
