On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:11:24PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 05:46:53PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > Does mutt still use the (IMHO silly) maildir hierarchy where mail > > 'folders' are simply represented by another '.' and name in the > > maildir directory name? > > I'm not sure why you think Mutt is doing this... I have my maildir > folders set up in exactly the way you say you want and they work fine. > But Mutt, by and large, isn't what created that mailbox structure--it > was procmail. Presumably it's also true for you that whatever is > delivering your mail is creating the directory structure, and mutt is > just consuming it. > Yes, true enough, and your reply encourages me to try again. "Whatever is delivering your mail" in my case is my own Python filter script that receives mail via ~/.forward so that's easy enough to make do the right thing (I think!).
I think I may previously have tried with other delivery agents which use the maildir++ format. Thanks! -- Chris Green
