I don't personally have any experience with Mutt and Binc on the same machine. However, I do know that Binc requires dots to be used as folder separators, as in INBOX.Sent (that is, not INBOX/.Sent). This will make Sent appear as a subfolder to INBOX even though it physically (from a Unix-perspective, anyway) resides on the same level. INBOX.Sent is just a maildir like INBOX itself, i.e. it contains cur, new, and tmp. This information should be available on the Binc Wiki, so if I'm explaining the obvious please bear with me. I don't know if Mutt supports this standard, though, but if you set it to use IMAP and point it to localhost there shouldn't be any problems.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?
I hope this was helpful.
Anders
