On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:51:42 +1030 Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2020-10-14 at 18:45 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > am also deciding on whether to keep the mh folder structure or move > > to Maildir > > Looking at some (elsewhere) conversations, Maildir was developed to > deal with problems some people found with mbox and mh. That may > suggest its the best way forward. Though, that'll depend on what those > problems were, and what your preferred mail client is best at. > > Long ago I made the move from using mbox to maildir with my Dovecot > mail server. Since my mail clients use IMAP to access the mail server, > they (should) only temporarily cache what I'm reading, so I don't > really care what the mail clients use internally. > > I looked at scripting to do a conversion, but the documentation was > dreadful, and I didn't care for all the experimenting I'd need to do to > figure out how to do it. So, I set up the new mail server using > maildir, while the old mbox server was still running, and dragged and > dropped huge batches of mail from one folder to another through my > Evolution mail client. Not the most elegant solution, but damn simple. Thanks, yes, I used to use mbox long ago, when I did not understand things clearly, and I used pine then, but I moved to mh with the move to sylpheed. An added benefit is in backups. I have never lost any mail on mh so far, but I wonder if I am simply tempting fate by not moving to Maildir (I do not completely understand the issues). Separately, I am still trying to figure out if there are still major advantages to using mutt vs. neomutt. Best wishes, Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
