Re: OT: Maildir vs. mh folders?

On Sun, 2020-10-18 at 09:03 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Yes and no... I can't answer to the technique of doing what's permissible, and that's going to depend on the software involved. In *my* case, I can nest folders, but a folder can contain only mail or another folder, not both together. But I do have sub-folders, and I use maildir. However, it's my mail client handles *how* it does sub-folders, and (in my case) they're done with a bit of fakery. There aren't folders inside folders stored on my filesystem. They're all in directly in my ~/.mail directory. They're named in a way that the mail client can show them in nested folders. e.g. While my mail client shows a tree like this: announcements/ /bugzilla /CentOS /Fedora /Google /Red Hat lists/ /Fedora /Musescore /tech logs/ /boot /cron /logwatch /printer With those lists of five, three, and four, folders inside the ones above them. On-disc, they're all in one place, like this: ~/.mail/announcements.bugzilla ~/.mail/announcements.CentOS ~/.mail/announcements.Fedora ~/.mail/announcements.Google ~/.mail/announcements.Red Hat ~/.mail/lists.Fedora ~/.mail/lists.Musescore ~/.mail/lists.tech ~/.mail/logs.boot ~/.mail/logs.cron ~/.mail/logs.logwatch ~/.mail/logs.printer It allows you to structure your mail client in a way that's useful to you, without you having to care about how it's achieved. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 25 17:23:54 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list.