Hi, * Wu, Yue wrote: > I want to let mutt deletes empty maildirs automatically, but 'save_empty' only > works for mbox, why? How to achieve it for maildir?
It doesn't work for maildir. I'm not sure why, but probably because removing an empty maildir has the potential to break something as it cannot be done atomically. For example, mutt could try to delete the subdirectories in this order: new, cur, tmp. While mutt deletes new/ some other process writes a new message into tmp/ which the delivery agent tries to move to new/ which isn't there anymore. I guess not supporting it is the safest variant. Rocco