> On 22 Jan 2022, at 21:26, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > I have a script that walks a quite deep tree of mail messages to find > and archive old messages. I'm trying to convert it from mbox to > maildir (as I now store my mail in maildir format). > > So I need to test whether a point I have reached in the hierarchy is a > maildir mailbox or not. Using mbox format it's easy because 'folders' > are directories and mailboxes are files. However with maildir the > 'folders' have directories within them so the simple tree walking goes > down a level too far and finds 'folders' which aren't mailboxes called > 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp'. > > Is there any 'ready made' way in python to tell whether a directory is > a maildir mailbox? If not I suppose I'll simply have to check if > there are 'cur', 'new' and 'tmp' directories within the directory > which may or may not be a maildir.
You do not need to walk the tree. The structure is Maildir/cur, new, tmp - The INBOX Maildir/<encoded-mail-folder>/cur, new, tmp The encoding prefixed with a "." and uses a "." between folder name parts. An example from my Maildir is ".Python.Users/" for a folder that client shows as Python/Users You can see this by doing: ls -a ~/Maildir Barry > > -- > Chris Green > ยท > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list