On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 05:49:04PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > Thanks for the reply, but none of those things help. See below... > > On 0, Chris Kenrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:48:30PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > 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: > > > > > > $HOME/Mail/<folder_name>/msg.3F7 > > > > > > I gather that this is called a 'maildir' mailbox. I can't get mutt to > > > look at it, though. The closest I could find to a tip about this is > > > that MH mail directories need a .mh_sequences file. Do I just need to > > > create this file (empty) and then everything will work? Or is there > > > some other way to get mutt to read this mail directory? > > > > > > Tom > > > > According to the mutt manual: > > > > Mutt supports reading and writing of four different mailbox formats: > > mbox, MMDF, MH and Maildir. The mailbox type is autodetected, so > > there is no need to use a flag for different mailbox types. When > > creating new mailboxes, Mutt uses the default specified with the > > ``$mbox_type'' variable. > > Yes, I read that too. > > > So there shouldn't be any difference. Have you defined the mailboxes in > > the mailboxes variable? > > This line appears in .muttrc: > > mailboxes /home/tkcook/Mail/inbox/ /home/tkcook/Mail/debian-user/ > > > Does the "folder" setting point to the right > > place? > > This line appears in .muttrc: > > set folder=/home/tkcook/Mail > > > What happens when you do a mutt -f $HOME/Mail/<folder_name> ? > > I get an empty mailbox index. No, the mailbox is not empty ;-) > > Thanks > Tom
As per previous answers on the list, it sounds like the mailbox is not really in Maildir format. - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
