I have a Debian box happily running exim and Mutt using a Maildir-format
mailbox, and I've been slowly getting my Binc installation to work,
accessed through Thunderbird.

I'm having trouble figuring out how I should set up my mail folders so
they're accessible both from Mutt and from Thunderbird through Binc.

The only way I've been able to make a folder visible to Thunderbird so
far is to prefix the directory name with a '.' (e.g.
'~/Maildir/.Folder') and to include it in .bincimap-subscribed in the
format 'INBOX/Folder'.

Before starting to use Binc/Thunderbird I had taken the fairly obvious
approach of having my folders simply be sub-folders of the Maildir
directory (e.g. ~/Maildir/Folder), and Mutt supported this usage fairly
easily.

If I need to I can prefix my folder names with dots, but this makes them
a bit harder to access through Mutt because they're now hidden. Of
course I can change Mutt's folder mask to show them, but I feel like I'm
fighting the software here and that there must be an easier way.

So: what's the recommended way to set up one's folders so they're
accessible to both Mutt and Binc?

Thanks,
Mike.

PS - I have a second problem... as of yet I've been unable to *send*
mail from Thunderbird because I have it set to copy the sent message to
the 'Sent' folder. I created a '~/Maildir/.Sent' folder, added
'INBOX/Sent' to .bincimap-subscribed, and this folder shows up properly
as 'Sent' in Thunderbird. I can drag mail items into or out of the
'Sent' folder, so it seems to be working properly. HOWEVER, when I send
a message, Thunderbird hangs forever saying that it's trying to copy the
message into the 'Sent' folder. I imagine that I'll have to do a trace
during this operation to see what Binc is trying to do, but before I do
that does anyone know why this might be happening?

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