On Jun 24 22:29, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 01:08:07PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > > > > > I'm getting the feeling that, maybe, very few people are now using > > mutt with mbox so that an 'out of the box' installation of mutt on > > Linux works fine with maildir but if you switch to mbox it all goes > > very much awry. > > Oh-oh, that's not good news. I have 710 mbox mail files, with more than > 3000 posts in some of them. I suppose I could convert each mbox to a > directory of the same name, but then I'd have to muck for days tuning my > .muttrc, I fear. :-( > > Is mbox actively deprecated by the developers, or has it just become a > corner case?
I use mutt with mbox format, but I'm still on 1.4 (FreeBSD port). This thread makes me a bit uneasy about the eventual portupgrade. > > Erik > > -- > There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one > works. > - Seen on luv-main -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com
