Re: mutt and maildir(?)

[Chris Kenrick <chrisk@aurema.com>]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 05:49:04PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, but none of those things help.  See below...
> 
> On  0, Chris Kenrick <chrisk@aurema.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:48:30PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I'm trying something New and Different with my mail configuration.
> > > Until fairly recently I have used mutt to access an IMAP server.  Now
> > > I have decided I want procmail, so I am using fetchmail to get the
> > > mail, which forwards it to exim, which pipes it through procmail,
> > > which dumps each message in a separate file in a directory named like:
> > > 
> > > $HOME/Mail/<folder_name>/msg.3F7
> > > 
> > > I gather that this is called a 'maildir' mailbox.  I can't get mutt to
> > > look at it, though.  The closest I could find to a tip about this is
> > > that MH mail directories need a .mh_sequences file.  Do I just need to
> > > create this file (empty) and then everything will work?  Or is there
> > > some other way to get mutt to read this mail directory?
> > > 
> > > Tom
> > 
> > According to the mutt manual:
> > 
> > Mutt supports reading and writing of four different mailbox formats:
> >   mbox, MMDF, MH and Maildir.  The mailbox type is autodetected, so
> >   there is no need to use a flag for different mailbox types.  When
> >   creating new mailboxes, Mutt uses the default specified with the
> >   ``$mbox_type'' variable.
> 
> Yes, I read that too.
> 
> > So there shouldn't be any difference.  Have you defined the mailboxes in
> > the mailboxes variable?
> 
> This line appears in .muttrc:
> 
> mailboxes /home/tkcook/Mail/inbox/ /home/tkcook/Mail/debian-user/
> 
> > Does the "folder" setting point to the right
> > place?
> 
> This line appears in .muttrc:
> 
> set folder=/home/tkcook/Mail
> 
> > What happens when you do a mutt -f $HOME/Mail/<folder_name> ?
> 
> I get an empty mailbox index.  No, the mailbox is not empty ;-)
> 
> Thanks
> Tom

As per previous answers on the list, it sounds like the mailbox is not really in
Maildir format.  

- Chris


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