This follows on from my recent question about mutt not recognising new mail which turned out to be due to the 'noatime' setting on the disk drives in question.
I can solve the problem by switching to maildir, however I'd prefer not to keep my saved/archived mail in maildir format, is it possible (or sensible) to mix the two formats? The mail delivery mechanism can be set up to deliver mail in maildir format, this goes to a number of maildirs in a directory dedicated to incoming mail (which are given to mutt by the 'mailboxes' command). I believe mutt will be fine with this as it will recognise the directory layout as maildir, it doesn't need to have the 'mbox-type' variable set. Then if/when I use mutt to save mail (in a separate directory hierarchy) it will use the default mbox format. Will this strategy work as I believe it will? Are there any serious problems I haven't noticed? It has the advantages of maildir for the areas where multiple processes/programs are likely to try and deliver simultaneously and the advantages of mbox for the more static areas. -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
