Switched to Maildir, other musings on email
Apr 1, 2006I had a corrupted mbox at work this weekend and one last year at home. Even once per year is too much given that I get several thousand (yes, you read that right) messages each month at home and several times that at work so I’ve converted to using a variation on [Maildir](http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html) called [Maildir[]{.underline}](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir). Nothing to it; a few search and replaces in .procmailrc and some tweaking of my .muttngrc.
It does make monthly archiving easier and I think it’s time to automate that but I:
1. don’t want to change my reading behavior.
2. don’t want to archive monthly unless there are some number of
messages.
I like the [clever procmail recipes](http://hcs.harvard.edu/~thurston/ua/pm-tips.html) that automatically build month-year archive directories but that interferes with both points.