Re: Mutt: "/home/adam/Maildir/ is not a mailbox"

[Randy Orrison <randy@orrison.com>]

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> Quoting Adam Bogacki <afb@paradise.net.nz>:
>
> > Hmmm... I've read (& shamelessly borrowed) your configs and 
> > commented/uncommented
> > everything in favour of Maildir in .procmailrc & .muttrc and when, as 
> > user, I try mutt I get
> >
> > > "---Mutt: (no mailbox) 
> > > [Msgs:0]---(threads/date)-------------------------(all)---/home/adam/Maildir/ 
> > > is not a mailbox."
>
> Maildir should be a directory with new, cur, and tmp sub-directories
> in it.  I can duplicate the error message is I delete the
> subdirectories.  Are you sure you created them?

The best way to create a maildir is

$ maildirmake Maildir

which creates the necessary subdirectories and sets the permissions 
reasonably.

maildirmake is in packages courier-base and maildrop

Randy