At 04:50 AM 1/21/02 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > >Personally, I use maildir for all my 'active' mailboxes (read: the ones >that mail gets delivered to and I read) because it's that much safer, >easier and more efficient to alter, and roughly similar in speed to open. >I use mbox for my archive mailboxes, because it's simpler and more compact >(I don't need to blow a few million inodes on mail archives, thank you >very much), and it's faster on the mailboxes with tens or hundreds of >thousands of messages.
I am in the process of converting to using mutt, so I've been playing a bit. And it appears that the archive mailboxes *have* to be mboxes. If I try to save a message to an existing maildir folder, mutt objects. >And, having spent rather some time lately writing code to parse mbox's, >I'd like to make the following general comment: >Bah. Agreed. andy
