On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:11:46PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: > Hi, > > * Wu, Yue wrote: > > > Why need I to be boring to do that if mutt can do it automatically? > > It cannot safely remove a maildir because it has no way to stop other > tools from delivering mail while mutt deletes it. The only one who has > the power to stop delivery and do safe removal is the user. The same > counts for MH folders. > > Removing empty mbox/mmdf files on the contrary is atomic and can be > safely done by mutt.
What about mbox? I have set up fetchmail and procmail fetch mails via cron, so if I'm operating on mbox like deleting/modifying some mails in mutt, and if new mails comes now, would some unsafe evens e.g. lost mails happen? If mbox has no such side effect, then I will be back with mbox. -- Hi, Wu, Yue