From uwe at stderr.spb.ru  Fri Dec  5 17:28:59 2025
From: uwe at stderr.spb.ru (Valery Ushakov)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2025 19:28:59 +0300
Subject: [tin-dev] maildir (mailbox format) support?
Message-ID: <aTMIS4XUe94fQe1b@snips.stderr.spb.ru>

Hi,

Some of my mailboxes became quite large, so I switched them from mbox
to maildir format.  I read quite a few mailing lists via nntp at gmane
with tin and save select articles into mailboxes in my ~/Mail.  Now
that I switched to maildir mailbox format, I no longer can save to
those mailboxes directly from tin.  I have to save to a temporary mbox
and then in mutt move the messages.  How much trouble would it be to
add maildir mailbox support to tin?  (Mailbox name completion under
$maildir, the directory, not the mailbox format would be awesome too).

Or do I miss something obvious here?  (I guess I can always pipe to an
external program, like procmail as an alternative)

TIA!

-uwe


From urs at tin.org  Wed Dec 17 21:58:35 2025
From: urs at tin.org (Urs =?UTF-8?Q?Jan=C3=9Fen?=)
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:58:35 +0100
Subject: [tin-dev] maildir (mailbox format) support?
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In Valery Ushakov <uwe at stderr.spb.ru> wrote:
> Hi,

> Some of my mailboxes became quite large, so I switched them from mbox
> to maildir format.  I read quite a few mailing lists via nntp at gmane
> with tin and save select articles into mailboxes in my ~/Mail.  Now
> that I switched to maildir mailbox format, I no longer can save to
> those mailboxes directly from tin.  I have to save to a temporary mbox
> and then in mutt move the messages.  How much trouble would it be to
> add maildir mailbox support to tin?  (Mailbox name completion under

save.c:save_and_process_art() and post.c:append_mail() should be the
two functions which would need to be adjusted (and while beeing at it
somehow merged ,-). You way ant to have a look at misc.c:strfpath()
which offers some formats which may help ("=%G/new" or "=%P/new").

As I don't use maildir I doubt I will do anything in that direction,
but patches are welcome.

> $maildir, the directory, not the mailbox format would be awesome too).

> Or do I miss something obvious here?  (I guess I can always pipe to an
> external program, like procmail as an alternative)

Sure, but I doubt this is more comfortable than still saving to a mailbox
from tin and postprocess it externaly.