Re: Mailboxes

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Tue, 17 July 09:06 Raven wrote:

> If I drop down the context menu in the mailbox tree, there are three kinds
> of mailboxes I can create (I know what IMAP is and it's not relevaant for
> me). There's mbox, Maildir, and MB. What is the difference between them and
> when should each be used. My current method of creating folders and
> mailboxes, which I discovered before this code was stable, is to find the
> place in the ~/mail directory that I want to place my folder or mailbox in
> and either make a new directory to create a folder or issue a touch command
> in the appropriate directory to create a mailbox. I then go back to balsa
> and rescan the tree.

The only sane mailbox format is maildir, the others are problematic.
Especially mbox.  Of them all only maildir is reliable.  Don't use the
others unless you need compatibility with other programs.  For more on
maildir see http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html

Brian Stafford