Re: Another stupid question
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:28:28AM -0500, Bob Billson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:29:53AM -0500, tps@unslept.com wrote:
> > DEFAULT = $HOME/Maildir
> >
> > in either your /etc/procmailrc (for systemwide delivery) or in your
> > private .procmailrc for just you.
>
> Almost. It should be $HOME/Maildir/. Without the trailing / procmail
> assumes an mbox folder.
Yup. I mis-cut-n-pasted. :)
> > If you are using Mutt for a local mailreader, you need to add
> >
> > set mbox_type=Maildir
>
> Correct.
I found that if you set MAIL=$HOME/Maildir , this works too.
> > 1190 O Mar 15 Jones, Susan M ( 19) after work get-together for Bill
> > 1191 N F Mar 16 To Tim Sailer ( 0) test mail
> >
> > notice that message 1190 hsa 19 lines and 1191 shows 0 lines, although
> > it has 10. The 1190 was from the mbox2mdir conversion, the new ones all
> > show up as 0 lines
>
> Same here. I haven't figured out either. I *think* it might have
> something to do with the way mutt opens the mailbox. With mbox style,
> it only has to open the one file and count lines. With maildir, it has
> to open each file and *then* count lines. With a big mailbox, this can
> take a while. My guess is the conversion script added a header with a
> line count, which mutt looks for.
Yup, from one of the old mails:
Status: O
Content-Length: 3634
Lines: 72
> If there is a way to get mutt to show size with maildir, I'd like to know
> what it is! :)
Since I use procmail for all local delivery, I'll see if I can persuade
procmail to do something like this.
Tim
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