As a data point, I set it in my .muttrc originally based on a read of the manpage. However, after reading your email, I removed it, and cannot tell any difference. Setting $folder was all I ever needed to do it seems.
-Chip On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:30:05PM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Wednesday, 04 April 2007 at 22:27, Paul Walker wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 06:06:47PM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > > > > > I'd like to yank the $imap_home_namespace option. I don't think it does > > > anything sensible. It's mostly just confusing. Would anyone mind if I > > > pulled it? > > > > Well, if I don't set it then ISTR I end up viewing my home directory rather > > than my mail. On the other hand, I don't actually *use* IMAP, so don't keep > > it on my account. But I think there are still uses for it, confusing though > > it may be. > > That should just be $folder. As far as I can tell, > $imap_home_namespace is about equivalent to > $folder+=$imap_home_namespace -- ==== Chip Killian http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~ckillian/ UCSD Graduate Student, Computer Science
