I'm a new mutt user starting right in with a pretty advanced
configuration, but I've read a lot, so it's time to ask questions.
I have procmail sorting my mail into various dirs in ~/Mail. Each
message has a name like msg.BvJC, msg.gvJC. I had thought that setting
mbox_type=Maildir would clue mutt into the way my mail is being kept,
but it apparently doesn't.
When I start mutt it reads /var/spool/mike, which is not being used.
What do I put in .muttrc to make mutt start up in ~/Mail/mbox (if mbox
is a reserved word, I can change that).
Now the format problem... So I hit c ? and it displays the contents of
~/Mail as a regular directory display (like ls -l would). I want mutt
to display the number of msgs in ea dir and maybe how many are
read/unread in ea dir. But instead I get a dir display.
So I arrow down and enter my default dir "mbox", and again I get the dir
format:
1 drwxr-sr-x 9 mike mike 4096 sep 19 06:30 ../
2 -rw-------- 1 mike mike 27167 sep 18 18:58 msg.BvJC
......as above...................................... mcg.gvJC
So now I arrow down and hit return to enter the msg, kinda as if it were
a dir, and finally I get the display of the one msg.
Summary of the main problem is: I want a mail reader not a directory
browser. I installed mutt from a debian package. It's 1.0.1i. Does
the answer involve getting the new ver and using some specific compiler
options?
mike
