On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 10:47:15AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > > > If you think this is a mess, you're right. People have tried to > > > fix it, but it can't really be fixed. The only good solution is > > > to not use mbox, and store mail in other ways instead.
> > I've yet to see anything to fix, having used mbox format > > exclusively since the 1980s, with mutt since the late 90s. It just > > effortlessly works with complete reliability - never a hiccup. > I agree - there are some quirks (like the "From " line escaping), > and some issues at a certain size / scale, but Maildir, mh, > etc. have their own problems and headaches. > I've used Maildir at various times (including with header caching > patches), but generally find that mbox works very well for most of > my personal mail needs. A few times I needed to do something like the OP in this thread, when I was still in the mbox camp. I didn't know any better so I used formail from the procmail package -- I think it's the `-s` or maybe `-S` option. *Not one time* it went without a problem -- in the better case the problem was just not getting the correct result out of the split operation, but the worse case of losing mail also happened. After the last of these occassions, must be about 10 years ago, I switched to maildirs for good. -- Ian
