: And remember, whatever new scheme wins, it still has to be : able to read my 20+ years of mbox format messages too.
It can ;-), it's just a matter of converting them... for (m in yourmboxes){ mail2fs -d $home/mail/$m $m } I mean, I still use omail (~ acme's Mail) to read mboxes I did not convert, and convert some of them to the dir hier. fmt. as I use them. But IMHO, there is no problem with that.