Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sat, 27 Nov 1999:
> I have opted to use Maildir format over mbox. The MDA in use is maildrop.
> Except for the inbox/spool directory, all the folders that maildrop uses
> are mbox format. The folders maildrop uses are in ~/Mail while the incoming
> spool is ~/Maildir.
>
> I thought one of the benifits of Maildir, is to have mail in seperate files
> for later processing and portability. Please correct me if I am wrong.
This is correct. The messages are generally in the subdirectories
<maildir>/new and <maildir>/cur.
> Should I have used "makemaildir ~/Mail"? Right now all the mail in each folder
> in ~/Mail gets appended.
Probably not, that would create a maildir-format folder called "Mail".
Generally you want to have mail folders (regardless of the folder
format) under a regular directory called Mail.
> I would like maildrop to use Maildir format and the folders to have the Maildir
> format.
You stated that all the folders under Mail are in mbox format? If you'd
like them to be maildirs, you need to run some kind of command to
convert them to maildirs. Typically you'd do something like this:
cd Mail
mv folder folder.mbox
mbox2maildir folder.mbox folder
<check that the mail in folder looks good>
rm folder.mbox
And so on. mbox2maildir scripts are pretty easy to find, you can
probably get one from the qmail site.
Another way to create a maildir folder is to use Mutt for this purpose,
since you seem to be using that. Rename the folder like in before, then
open it with Mutt, set $mbox_type to Maildir (:set mbox_type=Maildir),
and then save all of the messages to the old folder name
(something like T~A<enter>;s=folder<enter>).
Hope this helps,
Mikko
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