----- Original Message -----
From: Kim DeVaughn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mutt Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 2:35 AM
Subject: Re: mbox or MAILDIR


> On Thu, Aug 26, 1999, Michael Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> |
> | On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 04:51:04PM +1000, Craig McVean wrote:
> | >
> | >  Could someone explain the diffs between Mailder
> | >  and mbox, and which is best

[explanation snipped]

> Personally, I've never found any good reason to use anything other than
> mbox style boxes.  They are also easier to do "external" things with (like
> grep'ing the contents, etc), and seem to have fewer problems with "new
mail"
> notification/indication.

The only problem I have with mbox is I hate it when lines starting with
"From" are quoted (by the mda?) to ">From". That's especially annoying with
colourised messages, though that could be tuned with a better regex, I
expect.

Or is there some other simple solution?

-Brendan

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