My directory structure is like this: ~/Maildir/[cur|new|tmp] ~/Maildir/Folder1/[cur|new|tmp] ~/Maildir/Folder2/[cur|new|tmp]
Mutt accesses these directly through the filesystem, not through Binc (I should have made that clear in my original post). When you say that Binc requires dots for folder separators, I take that to mean that my .bincimap-subscribed file should contain entries like 'INBOX.Folder1', 'INBOX.Folder2', etc. If so, then I guess I don't understand what 'INBOX' refers to. Should 'Folder1' be a peer of '~/Maildir', or a subdirectory of it? Thanks for your response. Mike. PS - And yes, I've read through pretty much the whole wiki and searched the mail archives, but I haven't found any information that makes this clear to me. I'd be happy to add my notes to the wiki once I've got this sorted out. -----Original Message----- From: Anders la Cour Bentzon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 15, 2004 12:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [binc] Folders shared between Mutt and Thunderbird On 2004-04-15 18:29, Mike Iles wrote: >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 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 hope this was helpful. Anders
