On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 02:04:39PM +0000, David Woodfall wrote: > I used to use mbox format and save mailing list mail to eg: > > ~/mail/lists/mutt-users@mutt.org > > which made it very easy to make a script that creates the mailboxes, > alias and subscribe commands. I'd simply save the first email to a > folder in lists/ then run the script and everything was set up and > saved into ~/.mutt/lists which was sourced whenever mutt started. > > Now that I've switched to IMAP + Maildir I'm using the following: > > ~/mail/.lists.mutt-users@mutt_org/ > > Note how I've had to change the '.' in the domain name to an > underscore so that it doesn't get seen as a subfolder. > > To create the subscribe commands I then need to do a 's/_/.//g' on the > folder name to recreate the email address. > > This works fine so long as the mailing list address doesn't in reality > contain an underscore. > > So I'm just wondering how people here cope with organising mailing > lists with Maildir and any tips/tricks that may be a better way than > my present way. > You have neatly described one of the (several) reasons that I haven't switched to maildir format (whether or not hidden behind an IMAP server).
-- Chris Green
