On (10/02/13 15:52), Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> put forth the proposition:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 02:04:39PM +0000, David Woodfall wrote:
I used to use mbox format and save mailing list mail to eg:
~/mail/lists/mutt-users@mutt.org
which made it very easy to make a script that creates the mailboxes,
alias and subscribe commands. I'd simply save the first email to a
folder in lists/ then run the script and everything was set up and
saved into ~/.mutt/lists which was sourced whenever mutt started.
Now that I've switched to IMAP + Maildir I'm using the following:
~/mail/.lists.mutt-users@mutt_org/
Note how I've had to change the '.' in the domain name to an
underscore so that it doesn't get seen as a subfolder.
To create the subscribe commands I then need to do a 's/_/.//g' on the
folder name to recreate the email address.
This works fine so long as the mailing list address doesn't in reality
contain an underscore.
So I'm just wondering how people here cope with organising mailing
lists with Maildir and any tips/tricks that may be a better way than
my present way.
You have neatly described one of the (several) reasons that I haven't
switched to maildir format (whether or not hidden behind an IMAP
server).
--
Chris Green
Yeah, I have wondered a few times if it was worth the change...
David
