Re: Using Maildir format, changing mailbox

2020-06-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
Just an aside... On 05Jun2020 16:15, mutt...@mail.com wrote: To explain: I have a number of different email accounts on a number of different servers, and I do that for a number of reasons, one being that my email is then effectively pre-filtered. Separating work and personal email is well wo

Re: Using Maildir format, changing mailbox

2020-06-05 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:15:10PM +0200, mutt...@mail.com wrote: What I'd like is that when I press '?' I get a list of *mailboxes* rather than directories, because, as a user, I'm really not interested in directories, I only want to know about mailboxes. I have a couple suggestions. The firs

Re: Using Maildir format, changing mailbox

2020-06-05 Thread Ben Boeckel
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 07:33:04 -0700, Felix Finch wrote: > Out of curiosity, could you show your offlineimap usage? I have a > manually generated list of mboxes. It doesn't change often, but it > would be nice to do it "properly". I looked at offlineimap some time > ago, and again just now, an

Re: Using Maildir format, changing mailbox

2020-06-05 Thread Felix Finch
On 20200605, Ben Boeckel wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 16:15:10 +0200, mutt...@mail.com wrote: What I'd like is that when I press '?' I get a list of *mailboxes* rather than directories, because, as a user, I'm really not interested in directories, I only want to know about mailboxes. See the

Re: Using Maildir format, changing mailbox

2020-06-05 Thread José María Mateos
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:15:10PM +0200, mutt...@mail.com wrote: What I'd like is that when I press '?' I get a list of *mailboxes* rather than directories, because, as a user, I'm really not interested in directories, I only want to know about mailboxes. I also use the Maildir format and I ge

Re: Using Maildir format, changing mailbox

2020-06-05 Thread Ben Boeckel
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 16:15:10 +0200, mutt...@mail.com wrote: > What I'd like is that when I press '?' I get a list of *mailboxes* > rather than directories, because, as a user, I'm really not interested > in directories, I only want to know about mailboxes. See the `mailboxes` command. mailbox

Using Maildir format, changing mailbox

2020-06-05 Thread mutt-ml
I used to use Mutt way back in the day and, well, I haven't found anything better, so am returning to the fold. Kennel. Whatever. I was never very happy with mbox format so thought I would try Maildir instead. I've got it working, more or less, but my Mutt experience seems quite "raw" in that the

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread Suvayu Ali
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 folde

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread David Woodfall
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'

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread Tom Furie
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. Inbo

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread David Woodfall
Don't know if this helps with the problem, but I see a small "m" in your .muttrc, but at command prompt, you type Mail with capital "M" Two different directories. Yep, I actually renamed the folder to Mail since I started this thread. Seems to make it stand out more. On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread Michael
Don't know if this helps with the problem, but I see a small "m" in your .muttrc, but at command prompt, you type Mail with capital "M" Two different directories. On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:44 PM, David Woodfall wrote: >>> * On 29 Apr 2014, David Woodfall wrote: Significant parts fr

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread David Woodfall
* On 29 Apr 2014, David Woodfall wrote: Significant parts from .muttrc: set mbox_type=maildir set folder="$HOME/mail" set mbox="$HOME/mail" set spoolfile="$HOME/mail" Your $folder may be the source of the problem. My hypothesis: if you change that (to anything else, pretty much) and open up

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 05:08:17AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 02:57:27PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > > set mbox_type=maildir should let mutt know it's looking at a maildir > > structure. > > AFAIU, that setting, creates a maildir structure when creating a new > mailbox

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread David Woodfall
* On 29 Apr 2014, David Woodfall wrote: Significant parts from .muttrc: set mbox_type=maildir set folder="$HOME/mail" set mbox="$HOME/mail" set spoolfile="$HOME/mail" Your $folder may be the source of the problem. My hypothesis: if you change that (to anything else, pretty much) and open up

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread David Champion
* On 29 Apr 2014, David Woodfall wrote: > > Significant parts from .muttrc: > > set mbox_type=maildir > set folder="$HOME/mail" > set mbox="$HOME/mail" > set spoolfile="$HOME/mail" Your $folder may be the source of the problem. My hypothesis: if you change that (to anything else, pretty much)

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread David Woodfall
* On 28 Apr 2014, David Woodfall wrote: I've just set up dovecot/procmail on a debian VPS and when using mutt with maildir, as I navigate around, I see the new/ cur/ tmp/ folders and inside the actual file names of the mail. This should just work. Maildir is tested first, before other mailbox

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 02:57:27PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 04:00:07AM +0100, David Woodfall wrote: > > I've just set up dovecot/procmail on a debian VPS and when using mutt > > with maildir, as I navigate around, I see the new/ cur/ tmp/ folders > > and inside the actual f

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread David Champion
* On 28 Apr 2014, David Woodfall wrote: > I've just set up dovecot/procmail on a debian VPS and when using mutt > with maildir, as I navigate around, I see the new/ cur/ tmp/ folders > and inside the actual file names of the mail. This should just work. Maildir is tested first, before other mail

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 07:54:24AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:52:29PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:30:24AM +0100, David Woodfall wrote: > > > > If I'm not using imap it won't matter will it? I'm just using mutt -f > > > ~/mail. > > > > What

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:52:29PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:30:24AM +0100, David Woodfall wrote: > > If I'm not using imap it won't matter will it? I'm just using mutt -f > > ~/mail. > > What is the value of mbox_type in your mutt config? It should be > `Maildir'. m

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 04:00:07AM +0100, David Woodfall wrote: > I've just set up dovecot/procmail on a debian VPS and when using mutt > with maildir, as I navigate around, I see the new/ cur/ tmp/ folders > and inside the actual file names of the mail. > > On my home box I connect locally to the

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:30:24AM +0100, David Woodfall wrote: > >Dear David, > > > >Are you sure that you installed mail_location variable in Dovecot correctly? > > > >http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation > > If I'm not using imap it won't matter will it? I'm just using mutt -f > ~/mail. What

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread David Woodfall
Dear David, Are you sure that you installed mail_location variable in Dovecot correctly? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation If I'm not using imap it won't matter will it? I'm just using mutt -f ~/mail. Best regards, Roman Kravets On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:00 AM, David Woodfall wrote:

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-28 Thread Roman Kravets
Dear David, Are you sure that you installed mail_location variable in Dovecot correctly? http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation -- Best regards, Roman Kravets On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:00 AM, David Woodfall wrote: > I've just set up dovecot/procmail on a debian VPS and when using mutt > with ma

Using maildir

2014-04-28 Thread David Woodfall
I've just set up dovecot/procmail on a debian VPS and when using mutt with maildir, as I navigate around, I see the new/ cur/ tmp/ folders and inside the actual file names of the mail. On my home box I connect locally to the imap server so I don't see this, but is there a better way of viewing ma

Re: Oddity using Maildir

1999-03-09 Thread David DeSimone
Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > you need to use =purchases or +purchases. > > > > = and + expand to your "folder" variable in .muttrc. > > Of course, I always forget this! Thanks. (I'd got used to the > situation where folders with *new* mail appear automagically when you > hit 'c

Re: Oddity using Maildir

1999-03-09 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 09:35:43PM +1100, Grant Beattie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 10:32:49AM +, Chris Green wrote: > > > I am using mutt with Maildir, it appears not to be able to find its > > Maildir 'mailboxes' properly. > > > > I have a Maildir called 'purchases' for example. If w

Re: Oddity using Maildir

1999-03-09 Thread Grant Beattie
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 10:32:49AM +, Chris Green wrote: > I am using mutt with Maildir, it appears not to be able to find its > Maildir 'mailboxes' properly. > > I have a Maildir called 'purchases' for example. If when reading new > incoming mail (which works fine, mail in $HOME/Maildir) I

Oddity using Maildir

1999-03-09 Thread Chris Green
I am using mutt with Maildir, it appears not to be able to find its Maildir 'mailboxes' properly. I have a Maildir called 'purchases' for example. If when reading new incoming mail (which works fine, mail in $HOME/Maildir) I hit 'c' to change mailbox and then enter 'purchases' I get the message

Re: Using maildir

1999-02-05 Thread Vladimir Sizikov
Hi, On Feb 05, Chris Green wrote: > I am about to build mutt for my home Linux system (RedHat 5.2), I have > installed qmail to use maildir format. Do I have to do anything special > when building mutt to recognise the maildir format? What do I need to > put in the .muttrc for maldir? The only

Using maildir

1999-02-05 Thread Chris Green
I am about to build mutt for my home Linux system (RedHat 5.2), I have installed qmail to use maildir format. Do I have to do anything special when building mutt to recognise the maildir format? What do I need to put in the .muttrc for maldir? I've already built mutt on Solaris so have a .muttr