On 16.05.25 01:31, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: > If you think this is a mess, you're right. People have tried to fix
> it, but it can't really be fixed. The only good solution is to not use > mbox, and store mail in other ways instead. I've yet to see anything to fix, having used mbox format exclusively since the 1980s, with mutt since the late 90s. It just effortlessly works with complete reliability - never a hiccup. My mail directory currently contains 1352 mboxes, a few with upwards of 25,000 mails. The prospect of a few million mail files rather repels me from considering maildir. Especially when it wouldn't add anything of use here. I occasionally have two instances of mutt open on the same mbox. That has never posed a problem either. Mutt warns of external modification. This topic recurs once or twice a decade, lasts a week, reaches no conclusion, and then there's peace again for years. The concerns are still not clear to me, though. Erik -- Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. - Robert A. Heinlein
