Re: [sheflug] mutt (was MUA recommendations?)

[Adam Funk <a.funk [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Humphrey wrote:

>> Does anyone know if mutt and KMail use the same maildir format closely
>> enough that I can try mutt out and if necessary switch back to KMail, or
>> even alternate between both, without damaging my mail?
> 
> I tried sharing mail directories between Kmail and Sylpheed for a while, but 
> I found that Kmail stores things in hidden directories as well as in the 
> mail directories. The effort proved too much, especially as KDE seemed to 
> overwrite any pointers I set and grabbed exclusive control for itself.

In my (so far quite brief) testing, I noticed that mutt doesn't see
KMail's subfolders because their directory names start with ".".  I'm
reluctant to change Mutt's "File mask: !^\.[^.]" in case it screws up
KMail's index files (which also start with ".").

Does the maildir standard specify how subfolders are supposed to be
represented in the filesystem?

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