Mutt's mh folder support could indeed be better. However, mh
folders have serious problems with properly maintaining folder state
when several programs may access the folder concurrently. I'm not
aware of any well-defined locking solution for this.
Thus, I'd recommend you consider mutt's mh folder support a nice
tool to convert legacy folders to formats with less problems, such
as maildir or mbox. Actually, maildir has most probably the most
friendly properties of all formats.
On 1999-09-30 20:19:40 -0600, John Arthur Kane wrote:
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 20:19:40 -0600
> From: John Arthur Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: mutt-users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Working with MH ... not
>
> I am having trouble with mutt and trying to use MH mailboxes.
>
> I am able to get my mail into MH format just fine, and mutt will
> read from those directories too.
>
> However, it is constantly telling me that I have new mail.
>
> My mailboxes line has a number of mailboxes listed, but the behavior
> is that it will report new mail in the first mailbox that is in
> MH format. I change to that mailbox (and it does not have new mail). It
> then reports that the second mailbox in the list has new mail too.
> So, I change to it, again no mail.
>
> But wait! The first MH formatted mailbox in the list now has mail; not!
>
> This is consistant with version 0.95.4us and 1.0pre2us
>
> What I am doing stupidly?
>
> Thanks
>
