Re: mutt weirdness: >> "Move read messages to /home/astartoth/Mail/~/Maildir? ([n]/y):"
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:23:47PM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:26:10PM -0500, dsr@tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> | On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:16:39PM -0500, dman wrote:
> | >
> | > BTW, What's with this ~/Maildir thing I keep seeing mentioned? Where
> | > did that come from?
> |
> | Maildir is an alternative method of storing mail invented by djb and
> | first supportd by qmail;
>
> Oh, that explains it (after the djbdns discussion). He couldn't just
> put the folders in ~/Mail !?
Most people do, even if they use Maildir format. For instance:
!ls ~/Mail
archive commercial debian dns friends im2000 jobs mutt nanog qmail rpg trikes
are all Maildirs where I stash things.
~/Maildir is a replacement for /var/spool/mail/username.
-dsr-
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