mutt does not see messages in maildir mailbox

2012-10-03 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, while reordering some backups, I found a tar file containing a maildir-like mailbox. By this I mean that it was a folder with 3 subfolders with the right names: old_email/cur old_email/new old_email/tmp and thousands of files in it (almost all in /cur). I opened it with Mutt (Mutt

Re: mutt does not see messages in maildir mailbox

2012-10-03 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net [10-03-12 11:55]: ... The point is that now the mailbox shows as empty in Mutt, but a find old_email -type f returns several hundreds of files, all valid email messages if the few ones I have looked into with less are representative. Right now I have

Re: mutt does not see messages in maildir mailbox

2012-10-03 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 05:36:03PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: Greetings, while reordering some backups, I found a tar file containing a maildir-like mailbox. By this I mean that it was a folder with 3 subfolders with the right names: old_email/cur old_email/new old_email/tmp [...] The

SOLVED: mutt does not see messages in maildir mailbox

2012-10-03 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 13:25:01 PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: try opening the location where old_email is, specifically: mutt -f specific-location ie: mutt -f /home/user/mail/old_mail this didn't make any difference, but trying yours and Jeremy's suggestions helped me to find the real