On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 03:11:28PM -0800, Soren Jacobsen wrote:
> On 11/30 04:08, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > Indeed, doing that and test mailing myself produced "cur", "new",
> > etc., directories, but attempting to get mutt to read my new mailbox
 [...]
> > sent-mail, spam, and a couple of others, all in mbox format.  Is that
> > confusing mutt?
> 
> Most likely, yes, it is confusing mutt.
 [...]
> If only using one maildir mailbox, then ~/Maildir/ is the "standard"
> location. Other than that, I am not aware of anything that comes close
> to being standard.

Okay, thanks.  (^&


> > Also, what is a painless way to migrate one-big-mailbox to maildir
> > format (or back again, for that matter)?
> 
> I've never had the need to use this, but you might try
> http://untroubled.org/mbox2maildir
> 
> For moving from maildir to mbox, qmail comes with maildir2mbox.

Thanks again.


> > (Is there any kind of sequencing to maildir filenames, so that the
> > original mbox order could be reconstructed if desired, or is mbox
> > order considered "accidental" and not reflected in any maildir
> > information?)
> 
> mutt displays your mailboxes in whatever order you tell it to. So unless
> you have some funky (not sorted by date, sender, date+threads, etc.)
> order that you'd like to keep, order is irrelevant. I would think that

Well, maybe I'm just being pedantic.  (shrug)  If I decided to restore
myself to mbox format, a hope would be to reconstruct the mbox file
exactly.  It isn't terribly important, but just a habit of wanting to
be able to undo what I've done.

It shouldn't be hard to get *an* mbox file out of it, though.


Thanks for the helpful comments, in any case.


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