using wildcards in mailboxes

[Maciej Kalisiak]

Is it possible to use wildcards in the mailboxes command? I have
procmail spool all my mailing list mail to various folders in
~/mail/lists, and was hoping I could do

  mailboxes ! =lists/*

but unfortunately that doesn't seem to work; only the main spool file
shows up in the list of mailboxes.

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Re: using wildcards in mailboxes

[Dan Boger]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:01:09AM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote:
 Is it possible to use wildcards in the mailboxes command? I have
 procmail spool all my mailing list mail to various folders in
 ~/mail/lists, and was hoping I could do
 
   mailboxes ! =lists/*
 
 but unfortunately that doesn't seem to work; only the main spool file
 shows up in the list of mailboxes.

try

mailboxes ! `echo /path/to/your/folders/lists/*`

:)

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Re: using wildcards in mailboxes

[David T-G]

Maciej --

...and then Maciej Kalisiak said...
% 
% Is it possible to use wildcards in the mailboxes command? I have

If you want to use wildcards, you can only use shell-level shortcuts.
The shell does not know what '=' means, so the command fails.  Now, if
you had a symlink called =lists in your home dir (where you presumably
start mutt) and had it pointing to $HOME/Mail/lists (or wherever =lists
points in a mutt context), then it should work just fine...  Similarly,
you could start mutt in your $HOME/Mail dir and leave off the =, or
create a symlink = that points to the current directory, for another way
to get around it.

Most people just change the mailboxes line to something the shell can
parse :-)


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