Hi, Rocco Rutte <pd...@gmx.net> wrote: > * Wu, Yue wrote: >> I want to let mutt deletes empty maildirs automatically, but 'save_empty' >> only >> works for mbox, why? How to achieve it for maildir? > > It doesn't work for maildir. I'm not sure why, but probably because > removing an empty maildir has the potential to break something as it > cannot be done atomically.
Mutt can rename the maildir to $maildir-mutt-remove and then remove the subdirectories and then the $maildir-mutt-remove. The rename can be done atomically. Bye, Jörg. -- Es liegt in der Natur des Menschen, vernünftig zu denken und unlogisch zu handeln! Das Gesagte ist nicht das Gemeinte und das Gehörte nicht das Verstandene!