Managing Maildirs

[Damian Gerow]

Thus spake Eric Anderson (anderson at centtech.com) [19/12/03 14:33]:
> >Number one above will do the trick and is far more efficient than using the
> >``find ...-exec'', although you might want to modify it to only nuke mail
> >over a certain age.  To nuke all trash over 30 days old:
> >
> >	find /home/*/Maildir/.Trash -type f -mtime +30 | xargs rm
> 
> On a totally unrelated note,  I'm thinking about switching from mbox 
> formatted mailboxes using imap, to a more robust and faster imap server 
> that uses maildirs.  My problem is, I have pop users, imap users, and 
> elm/mutt/pine users on the same box.  Does elm/mutt/pine work ok with 
> maildirs?  What about sendmail?  What should I be looking out for?

Oddly enough, we were just discussing a similar thing yesterday, but decided
against it.

I am currently using mutt with mh-style directories on my local machine,
without difficulties.  And if it /does/ cause difficulties, just IMAP to
localhost.  Mutt and IMAP seem to play nicely together, I've been using it
with cyrus for about a year now, with no issues (aside from configuration
issues).

The hard part will be converting your current mbox-style mailboxes over to
maildir-style mailboxes, IMHO.