"Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> (is: Re: mixing mailbox formats)
Alan Connor
<slrndcann2....@othin.ninehells.com>, "Peter H. Coffin"
wrote:
> On 01 Jul 2005 13:50:34 GMT, Martin Trautmann wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> is it possible to mix mailbox formats?
>>
>> The docu tells me about the 'default' mbox_type (which is mbox
>> here).
>>
>> Other mailboxes I use are direct IMAP access.
>>
>> Is there an option to use one (or more) dedicated mailboxes in
>> a different format, such as MH?
>
> Use, sure. Just open them, or save things to them. Mutt will
> use them according to their type, automatically.
>
>> I managed to create a MH maildir via changing the mbox_type.
>> mutt does manage this format in parallel to the others. But is
>> there a direct approach to tell mutt in order to save e.g. the
>> tagged message to another mbox in a dedicated format?
>
> If the box already exists, it's not a problem. If it doesn't
> exist, it will create the mailbox according to $mbox_type. As
> far as I know, there's not a convenient way to create most
> mailboxes as mbox and occasionally one as Maildir, short of
> making a macro to change $mbox_type.
>
><caveat: Alan thinks I'm scary and untrustworthy.>
Nope. I think you are a snivelling, selfish, and paranoid twerp.
>
> -- When you have a thermic lance, everything looks like hours
> of fun. -- Christian Wagner in a.s.r
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Alan Connor
<slrndcaiha...@ID-685.user.individual.de>, "Martin
Trautmann" wrote:
Isn't this just grand. An entire thread kept out of the archives
with the X-No-Archive: yes header.
Let's fix that.
> Hi all,
>
> is it possible to mix mailbox formats?
>
> The docu tells me about the 'default' mbox_type (which is mbox
> here).
>
> Other mailboxes I use are direct IMAP access.
>
> Is there an option to use one (or more) dedicated mailboxes in
> a different format, such as MH?
>
> I managed to create a MH maildir via changing the mbox_type.
> mutt does manage this format in parallel to the others. But is
> there a direct approach to tell mutt in order to save e.g. the
> tagged message to another mbox in a dedicated format?
>
> Thanks Martin
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