Re: A few user questions - nested folders

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 12/02/2004 05:40:37 PM, Andrew Conkling wrote:
[ snip ]
> One more question about this: I can't have anything in the base  
> folder ("Mailing Lists" in my case).  I'd like to keep somewhat  
> global information therein and have the specific lists saved in  
> the subsequent boxes.  Is this possible?

Yes, if you make the base folder a maildir or mh mailbox.  Each  
of those is implemented as a file-system directory with  
particular contents that identify it, but each can also contain  
nested mailboxes of either type.  So you could have

~/mail
   Mailing Lists (maildir)
       cur  |
       new  > identify a maildir
       tmp  |
       Balsa    (maildir, also with cur, new, and tmp)
       Xfce     (ditto)
       ...

and further levels of nesting if you wish.

HTH!

Peter