Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote:
> Then what you will have to ask yourself is whether you want all your
> folders shared by every one of your incoming maildirs. I could consider
> the proposal of storing all folders in ../Mail, however what I don't like
> about this approach is that you're now in conflict with your mail apps who
> use $HOME/Mail to store traditional mailbox-file folders.
Which, when patched, will look for and store maildirs there, won't they?
And if you do use maildirs, all of your MUAs should be able to handle
maildirs or you won'tbe able to access your messages no matter where you
store them.
If you think of maildirs as an alternative to the mailbox _file_ format,
~/Mail/ is the obvious solution.
For folders that should contain both messages and subdirs, you could
create a subdirectory named ".default" to hold messages that
look as if they were stored in the parent folder. This is compatible
with MUAs that don't expect to see subfolders in maildirs (such as
mutt).
If you then fake a link from ~/Mail/.default/ or ~/Mail/INBOX/ (depends
on the protocol you're using/implementing) to $MAILDIR, you have a
complete hierarchical namespace.
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