Re: [Dovecot] Deleted email does not appear in the Trash folder

cl@isbd.net wrote:

There are a number of issues with maildir that eventually make me leave it:-

It's not so easy to manually traverse a maildir hierarchy and/or
manually search for text in messages.  OK, I know there are tools
to do it but I often end up writing custom scripts to do things
and mbox is just much easier to deal with.  (for a start, if using
grep, I get a sensible name with mbox, junk with maildir)

Define 'junk'? And I find that being able to act on each individual message as a separate file rather than searching a flat file for keys tremendously more flexible, and faster too for that matter.

In mutt at least I get much more meaningful information about
maibox size when using mbox than when using maildir.

Not using mutt, so can't comment... define 'meaningful'?

Different MUAs seem to have more trouble working 'cooperatively'
when using maildir.

It appears to be the opposite to me - no need to lock the whole box to work with one message... examples?

This is sort of mixed up with IMAP, but still ....
The inconsistent use of '/' and '.' directory (well, pseudo
directory) delimiters between different implementations. Who ever
thought of using '.' and creating all mailboxes at the same level
with longer and longer names should be shot!  It makes all sorts
of things that expect real directories totally broken. 

You're welcome to change this using namespaces or whatever. I'm curious as to what mail tools expect 'real directories'?