On Mon May 06, 2013 02:20PM, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> On Mon, May 6, 2013, at 08:53 AM, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > I've been connecting to my fastmail.fm account directly via IMAP for a
> > while now with no issues. Recently, I've decided to use offlineimap to
> > mirror the content locally to a Maildir directory.
> >
> > I've been trying to change my .muttrc to reflect the change so that it
> > points to the local files. While I'm seeing the mail in each subscribed
> > folder, some of the expected behavior is not working ('c' prompting to
> > change to the next folder with new messages).
> >
> > The local mail folders are located in ~/.mail/fastmail/ and look like:
> >
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 21:40 .Drafts/
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 trey staff 102 May 5 19:12 .notmuch/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 21:38 Drafts/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.Apple Mail To Do/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.Archive/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.CentOS/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.Deleted Messages/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.Drafts/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.FreeBSD-Questions/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.Junk/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.Junk Mail/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.K12OSN/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.Queue/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.SLES/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.Saved/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.Sent/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.Sent Items/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.Sent Messages/
> > drwx------ 5 trey staff 170 May 5 14:28 INBOX.SuSE/
> >
> > Not sure why I have multiple Drafts folders.
> >
> > In my .muttrc I have this:
> >
> > set mbox_type=Maildir
> > set folder="~/.mail/fastmail/"
> > set mask="!^\\.[^.]"
> > set mbox="~/.mail/fastmail/"
> > set record="+INBOX.Sent Items"
> > set postponed="~/.mail/fastmail/INBOX.Drafts"
> > set spoolfile="~/.mail/fastmail/INBOX"
> >
> > I assume that I've formatted the paths wrong above? Hoping someone can
> > help.
> >
> > Related, what should the format of entries for 'mailboxes' be?
> > mailboxes INBOX.mutt INBOX.Sent
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> To update, I put the full path in for both 'set record' and 'set
> postponed' (such as "~/.mail/fastmail/INBOX.Sent") and both the remote
> Drafts and Send folders get populated as would be expected.
>
> But I'm still not sure what the format should be for the 'mailboxes'
> line in .muttrc. While on IMAP, I can hit 'c' and will be prompted with
> the next folder that contains new mail. I had a line when connecting
> via IMAP like:
>
> mailboxes =INBOX.ale =INBOX.mutt
>
> What should be the syntax for mailboxes entries when pointing to a local
> Maildir?
>
> Thanks.
>
I found the correct format to be +INBOX.mutt
This is on Max OSX Mountain Lion, so I used this entry in .muttrc to
populate:
mailboxes `find ~/.mail/fastmail -maxdepth 1 -type d -name ".*" -exec \
echo -n "+'{}' " \;`
--
Cheers,
Trey
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