[ Paolo Pisati wrote on Mon 8.Oct'12 at 14:26:49 +0200 ] > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 05:03:06PM +0200, Paolo Pisati wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 12:39:42PM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > The problem is with your setting of $spoolfile. By default, mutt uses > > > ~/Mail for it's mailboxes. If you want to use ~/Maildir for your > > > mailboxes you need to specify $folder to ~/Maildir, which you have done. > > > But, you want ~/Maildir/inbox to be your spoolfile, so you need to put > > > this in muttrc > > > > > > set folder=~/Maildir > > > set spoolfile=+inbox > > > ... > > > > thanks, it worked. > > ok, but i've another problem now: > > whenever i press 'c' to change mailbox i get an empty screen (previously it > would show me the content > of ~/Maildir) and to get the list of mailboxes i either have to: > > -press TAB once > > or > > -press another time 'c', and when it shows "Chdir to: /home/flag/Maildir/" > press enter > > what could be wrong now? > > set mbox_type=Maildir > set folder="~/Maildir/" > set spoolfile=+inbox > set mask="!^\\.[^.]" > set record="+.Sent" > set postponed="+.Drafts" > > set from="Foo Bar <[email protected]>" > set sendmail = "/usr/bin/msmtp -a gmail"
what is the output from ls -a ~/Maildir Also, why do you have a leading '.' for your $record and $postponed mailboxes. You don't need the '/' at the end of $folder=~/Maildir/ not that it should make much difference.
