Ben --
...and then Ben Beuchler said...
% I am using mutt 1.1.9. I have $mbox set to "=read" and it does indeed
% save all read messages there. However, when I attempt to change to that
That's good; it's behaving :-)
% folder, it just shows me the actual mail file rather then a list of
% messages.
This is good, too, unless you've specifically set up your =read "folder"
(more on that) as a Maildir or MH folder instead of an mbox "folder" --
which, as you've probably found, is a file. Then, again, I don't use
those formats and so I don't know how they look in the browser...
AFAIU, mutt folks use the terminology "folder" and "file" pretty
interchangeably; although $folder is definitely a directory where all
of your mail stuff lives, folder-hooks apply to mailboxes (in whatever
format) themselves. As such, it's tricky to tell whether you are
specifically talking about mailbox formats (controlled for *creation* of
new mailboxes by $mbox_type, since mutt saves to a box in whatever form
it has) or user mailbox management. For my humble dissertation on the
latter, see below.
<offtopic-to-other-thread>
Hey, I bet that you could define a *.tar folder type for the compressed
patch and compress your maildir and mh folders that way :-)
</offtopic-to-other-thread>
%
% Actually, it's doing this with every box except my actual inbox.
%
% I'm using mutt on a local mail spool, however the .muttrc I am using is a
% modified form of the .muttrc I use to access my IMAP box at home. Is it
% possible that I missed a couple of settings that should've been changed
% when I switched from IMAP to a local mail spool?
The way I read your note, you have your incoming mail somewhere (and
probably conveniently shortcutted to !), you have a mail folder like
$HOME/Mail that is assigned to $folder and expands the '=' shortcut,
and you currently have a single mbox-format file "read" in your "=" dir
($HOME/Mail in this example) containing all of the messages you've ever
read all jumbled together. You want, however, to have "read" be a
subdirectory with user mailboxes underneath, so everything from joe gets
saved to =read/joe and so on.
I'm starting to experiment with this myself, and think that you want
to look at the save-hook setting with the %o expando (as I understand
it, this supplies the 'o'riginal save filename when you're rewriting
the location -- like stuffing it down a directory level). I don't
know if that's only available by patch, though, and haven't done any
experimentation with it. I expect a followup from Mikko shortly :-)
%
% Ben
%
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