On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:48:30PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: | I'm trying something New and Different with my mail configuration. | Until fairly recently I have used mutt to access an IMAP server. Now | I have decided I want procmail, so I am using fetchmail to get the | mail, which forwards it to exim, which pipes it through procmail, | which dumps each message in a separate file in a directory named like: | | $HOME/Mail/<folder_name>/msg.3F7 | | I gather that this is called a 'maildir' mailbox.
A maildir folder looks like this :
$HOME/Mail/<folder_name>/cur
/<lots of uniquely named files>
/new
/<lots of uniquely named files>
/tmp
| I can't get mutt to look at it, though.
mutt will automatically recognize a maildir folder.
| The closest I could find to a tip about this is
| that MH mail directories need a .mh_sequences file. Do I just need to
| create this file (empty) and then everything will work?
Could be, but then you'll be using MH instead of maildir. I don't
know anything about MH.
-D
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