On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:27:38PM +0100, David Woodfall wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:44:38PM +0100, David Woodfall wrote:
> >
> >>Well, I'm not quite out of the woods. Although mutt starts off in my
> >>Inbox (using mutt -f ~/Mail) and it shows everything correctly, when
> >>I change folder, to say view all my mailboxes, then I can't get back
> >>into my Inbox. Inbox isn't listed anywhere that I can see, and the
> >>only way seems to be to restart mutt -f ~/Mail.
> >>
> >>If I hit 'c' to change folder it just lists all my folders minus
> >>Inbox. I guess I could make an Inbox folder and set that in procmail
> >>to be default. Is that the proper way? I expect I would need to point
> >>dovecot at it too.
> >>
> >>I tried commenting out the $folder as you suggested but it doesn't
> >>seem to help. I also noticed that $MAIL was set to
> >>/var/spool/mail/... so I also pointed that at ~/Mail.
> >
> >After pressing 'c', you can use '!' to go to what mutt considers your
> >"inbox" ($spoolfile), and '=' or '+' to go to $folder.
> >
> >If you have $folder set as ~/Mail, mutt will start there without you
> >passing '-f ~/Mail'. I've noticed you using ~/mail and ~/Mail at
> >different times, which is it? What does dovecot think it is? What does
> >mutt think it is?
>
> I've set everything - mutt, dovecot, procmail to use ~/Mail now.
>
> I'll checkout '!', thanks.
But did you follow David Champion's suggestion to have the maildir under
~/Mail and not have ~/Mail itself as a maildir. Example from my setup:
/home/user/Mail
├── archive
│ ├── cur
│ ├── new
│ └── tmp
├── INBOX
│ ├── cur
│ ├── new
│ └── tmp
├── sent
│ ├── cur
│ ├── new
│ └── tmp
└── templates
├── cur
├── new
└── tmp
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