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Re: mutt+Maildir Pros & Cons?



on Sun, Apr 21, 2002, Paul Mackinney (paul@mackinney.net) wrote:
> Patrick Hsieh declaimed:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > I use postfix and Maildir together.
> > When I export MAIL=$HOME/Maildir, mutt can read the inbox.
> > But when I send mail out, it will not backup in the $HOME/Maildir/.Sent
> > directory. How to make it work?
> I've been using mutt with mbox, fairly happy.
> 
> I understand the argument for maildir (all eggs not in one basket), are
> there any cons?

It's slow on opening large folders.  Discussed here in the past two
weeks. There's a patch to build an index file for folders, not yet in
Debian.

Peace.

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