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List:       mutt-users
Subject:    Re: Subfolders
From:       Charles Howard <incubando () hotmail ! co ! uk>
Date:       2009-10-30 23:51:37
Message-ID: BLU103-W1558E03FC82695AB97EBBDE5B60 () phx ! gbl
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> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:30:46 -0400
> From: pgenpaul@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: Subfolders
> To: mutt-users@mutt.org
>
>
>
> I'm still not 100% sure about what you mean by "subfolders" or "nested
> folders", but I have a feeling my initial impression was correct. 
> 
> ......................
>
> Not sure if that's what you were missing but I certainly didn't find it
> obvious when I switched to mutt a few years ago.
>
> Gen-Paul.
>

That's a lot of very useful info Gen-Paul. I didn't know that trick with Tab. Excellent. 

I use Maildir which does make a difference. 

The mailer that's in the back of my mind is pine (c.2007). I don't like mice. 

I've now got a setup which seems to be working. I'll describe it in case it helps someone
in the future. It's not quite what you suggested. 

I have an overall plain dir ~/OVERMAIL

Inside this I have a dozen or so plain dirs, like

~/OVERMAIL/0DEFAULT
~/OVERMAIL/DEPT
~/OVERMAIL/ABROAD
~/OVERMAIL/COLLEAGUES
...
~/OVERMAIL/PERSONAL
~/OVERMAIL/Drafts
~/OVERMAIL/Outbound-copy

The last two are Maildirs. Each of the rest has inside it two Maildirs:

~/OVERMAIL/0DEFAULT/ACTIVE
~/OVERMAIL/0DEFAULT/PROCESSED
...

The ACTIVE Maildirs in most cases receives mail from procmail. 

I still notice whether mail is `old' or `read' but I often have
to go back to one email several times before finishing with it
and I leave it in ACTIVE until I've finished, at which point I
manually shift it to PROCESSED.  

This seems to be working well for me so far. I move around the tree
just with arrow keys and enter. Procmail and mairix are happy. So am I. 

I've benefited a lot from all the help - thanks to everyone who wrote. 

Chas


 		 	   		  
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