Mutt on/off dovecot imap server, will try to tell the whole story.
Difficult to do in concise manner, pls. bear with me.
There are two basic options, the off, with the commented out on option
first.
On meaning on Dovecot, off meaning off/without Dovecot.
#set spoolfile=imap://me@mydovecot/INBOX
#set folder=imap://me@mydovecot/
set spoolfile="~/Maildir/"
set folder="~/Maildir/"
But let me start with on, first.
set spoolfile=imap://me@mydovecot/INBOX
set folder=imap://me@mydovecot/
#set spoolfile="~/Maildir/"
#set folder="~/Maildir/"
I can only see/access the folder INBOX.
Default mask (the installed default, I guess generally, but I'm on
Debian Jessie) being:
!^\.[^.]
I change it to:
[^.]
I then see all the folders:
1 IMAP .109806486481
2 IMAP .114674985270726
...[snip]...
18 IMAP .312893169439
19 IMAP .37080471529
20 IMAP .77789534513
21 IMAP .alsa-user
...[snip]...
28 IMAP .dmo-discussion
...[snip]...
30 IMAP .Drafts
3 IMAP .helpdesk
...[snip]...
36 IMAP .hrvatskastraza
37 IMAP INBOX
38 IMAP .lista
39 IMAP .mencoder-users
40 IMAP .mplayer-users
..[snip]...
48 IMAP .Sent
But as soon as I try to go into any of the folders, I get:
[CANNOT] Invalid maibox name
the only error to see.
Only INBOX can I see and use, probably also use... Still learning how
to do all the mutting...
So I now comment it out, and...
#set spoolfile=imap://me@mydovecot/INBOX
#set folder=imap://me@mydovecot/
set spoolfile="~/Maildir/"
set folder="~/Maildir/"
and try use mutt without the dovecot mail server.
and now, I can browse all, surely, only once I change the mask in the
same way as
above.
But I can also probably use mutt in regular way...
I have a difficult setup for a toiling non-expert user like me.
Postfix for SMTP (not SMTPD) (haven't yet sorted the outgoing mail),
Getmail + Maildrop, which is working yet (sending this from
web-interface)...
I have trying the namespace thing on and off, and just couldn't get it
to work.
What should I look at now... Stay with namespace, since it seems to
work for people, such as:
http://marc.info/?l=mutt-users&m=136050711724322&w=2#1
and around, and probably before, and after...
Or... not. If it is too tricky or what to get it to work...
I need this, don't want to go back to any kind of GUI's, and Mutt
really feels the best solution... so I hope I'll be able to get much
clearer on this.
I'm toiling to figure things out, pls. allow slowliness on my part in
deploying my problem here, and in understanding your replies, hopefully.
Miroslav Rovis
Zagreb, Croatia
