> My preferred format would look something > like this: > > 2014-06-14__14-01-23.sender_subject.hostname
Other people have already pointed out that this breaks when two messages arrive in the same second. And what should happen when a sender address contains a "_" character? If the idea is to make mail accessible by certain attributes, you could set up a database with as fields: filename|date|time|sender|subject With this you would not have to rename all your mail files when you decide that you need to select mail by one more attribute. Wietse