On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 01:33:24PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Just to report success. It all appears to be working as I want with > 'real' directories for my mail hierarchy.
Glad to hear it. > It was basically quite simple to do, mostly using 'find', first to > create a copy of my old mbox directory hierarchy and then to run mb2md > against each mbox to the required destination in the new hierarchy. > > Obviously there were a few changes to my muttrc to tell mutt to create > maildir rather than mbox and the delivery/filter program run by > .forward has to create maildir mails rather than mbox ones (which > makes it a lot simpler of course). I confess to some curiosity here... What are you doing in your home-grown MDA, that you could not already do with procmail, which (if you're on a Linux system at least) your mail system is most likely already using to deliver your mail? -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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