On 2009-01-31_0244.36, sigi wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to mix local mboxes (processed by fetchmail) and local > mirrored maildirs through offlineimap in one muttrc, in a way that they > both show up in the folder-menu of mutt? > > I tried to do this, but it seems I'd have to decide between fetchmailed > mboxes or maildirs with offlineimap. > > Any hints?
Yes, it is possible, but the results can be confusing. I discovered I was mixing by accident. Mutt will read an mbox file and a maildir directory indifferently, if both are present in ~/Mail or in ~/Maildir or in whatever directory you have specified in muttrc. When reading, it recognizes the format that is actually there in each individual mailbox and treats it according. When creating a new mailbox it will create the type that you have told it to use in muttrc. It doesn't get confused, but you very likely will. Consider this a hint as to what you should do. There is a program mb2md that converts mbox format to maildir format. I have found it difficult to use, but I have made it work. mb2md might work very nicely if you give it a clean, well maintained mbox format email directory, but it sounds like that is not what you have, so I recommend using bash and core-utils to clean up the mess somehow. I have been doing that myself for the past couple of weeks. Procmail uses both mbox and maildir, and knows which to use by the address you give it - if the address ends in a slash (/) it uses maildir, otherwise it uses mbox. This might also be the case for mutt, but I haven't tested. HTH -- Paul E Condon [email protected]
