Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-05 Thread sigi
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 06:17:14PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: > [...] Another > notable difference is in new mail notification and mailbox switching. > Mutt's maildir implementation is better at remembering that you have > new mail than its mbox implementation is... The mbox implementation > "for

Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-02 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, February 2 at 06:17 PM, quoth Derek Martin: > Another notable difference is in new mail notification and mailbox > switching. Mutt's maildir implementation is better at remembering > that you have new mail than its mbox implementation is.

Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-02 Thread Christian Ebert
* Derek Martin on Monday, February 02, 2009 at 18:17:14 -0600 > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:05:39PM +0100, sigi wrote: >> Thanks a lot for all your replies! I've changed my mailboxes to >> maildirs now - and am not messing around with two formats anymore. :) > > There *are* advantages to both...

Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-02 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:05:39PM +0100, sigi wrote: > Thanks a lot for all your replies! I've changed my mailboxes to > maildirs now - and am not messing around with two formats anymore. :) There *are* advantages to both... Their performance characteristics (and behavior, unfortunately) are d

Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-02 Thread sigi
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:29:25AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Paul E Condon [02-02-09 01:03]: > > > > There is a program mb2md that converts mbox format to maildir format. > > I have found it difficult to use, but I have made it work. mb2md might > > work very nicely if you give it a clea

Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-02 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Paul E Condon [02-02-09 01:03]: > > There is a program mb2md that converts mbox format to maildir format. > I have found it difficult to use, but I have made it work. mb2md might > work very nicely if you give it a clean, well maintained mbox format > email directory, but it sounds like that is

Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-02 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Anders! On Mon, 02 Feb 2009, Anders Rayner-Karlsson wrote: > > There is a program mb2md that converts mbox format to maildir > > format. > > I have found it difficult to use, but I have made it work. mb2md might > > work very nicely if you give it a clean, well maintained mbox format > > emai

Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-01 Thread Anders Rayner-Karlsson
* Paul E Condon [20090202 07:02]: > On 2009-01-31_0244.36, sigi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is it possible to mix local mboxes (processed by fetchmail) and local > > mirrored maildirs through offlineimap in one muttrc, in a way that they > > both show up in the folder-menu of mutt? > > > > I tried

Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-01-31_0244.36, sigi wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to mix local mboxes (processed by fetchmail) and local > mirrored maildirs through offlineimap in one muttrc, in a way that they > both show up in the folder-menu of mutt? > > I tried to do this, but it seems I'd have to decide betwee

mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-01-30 Thread sigi
Hi, is it possible to mix local mboxes (processed by fetchmail) and local mirrored maildirs through offlineimap in one muttrc, in a way that they both show up in the folder-menu of mutt? I tried to do this, but it seems I'd have to decide between fetchmailed mboxes or maildirs with offlineima