On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 10:10 +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:30:30AM -0800, Kip Warner wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 17:13 +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > the implicitly present INBOX is synced even if you don't use it,
> > > and
> > > Inbox' default for Maildir stores is ~/Maildir as documented.
> > > append !INBOX to your Patterns to avoid it.
> > 
> > Thanks Oswald. Your solution does prevent ~/Maildir from being
> > created,
> > but it looks like the contents of the inbox isn't being saved, only
> > the
> > IMAP subfolders into ~/Mail. 
> > 
> 
> well, that was kind of implied in what i said ...

I get it, but I'm trying to reconcile the need to archive mail,
including the contents in the root folder (INBOX) with the need to not
create the ~/Maildir directory.

> you set (for example) Inbox ~/Mail/Inbox in your Maildir store (i'm
> guessing here, because i don't know your server's mailbox layout and
> how you want it to look locally). you need to remove the Pattern
> exclusion again, obviously.

Ok, I think that will work. Thanks Oswald!

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