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

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