Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively

[Gregory Heytings]

> What it comes down to is that your mail user agant is designed to be 
> convenient and easy with maildirs, and Rmail is designed to be 
> convenient and easy with mboxes.  If you suppose that Rmail works like a 
> user agent that was designed for maildirs, you will expect some 
> operations to be problematical, which in fact are not.

I think we are miscommunicating.

I'm not supposing anything about mail user agents.

I'm just trying to explain why mbox files are incompatible with the way 
most people deal with their mails nowadays.  It's not without reason that 
Maildirs have replaced mboxes (and IMAP has replaced POP).  I understand 
that the limitations of mbox files are apparently not a problem for you 
personally.

More generally, I'm trying to explain why adding a support for Maildirs to 
Rmail might increase its adoption.