On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 05:46:53PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Does mutt still use the (IMHO silly) maildir hierarchy where mail > 'folders' are simply represented by another '.' and name in the > maildir directory name? > > Is there some way I can get to use real directories to represent my > hierarchy of mail? I manually rearrange my mail sometimes and to deal > with very long directory names isn't really practical. For example I > might decide to move mail as follows:- > > ~/Mail/folder/travel/zelmaFrance > > to > > ~/Mail/folder/travel/france/zelma > > With real directories such a move isn't too difficult but with the > default maildir naming it becomes painful. > > Some software I believe does work the way I want with maildir but the > dotted hierarchy seems to be becoming the standard. Is there no way > round this? I'd really like to move to maildir but I really can't see > it being practical for me as it is. > I just run mb2md on my existing mail folders, I ended up with a single directory (~/Maildir) containing 2354 files mostly with ridiculously long names! This just isn't a sensible way to organise my mail.
-- Chris Green
