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Re: mutt and Mozilla mail



Matthew Daubenspeck was roused into action on 2002-11-13 22:12 and wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:59:32PM -0600, Gianfranco Berardi wrote:

I like Mozilla mail, but sometimes I am at work and I would like to be able to access my mail through the command line. Well I find Mutt should do its job just fine, but what I also find is Mozilla will seem to get confused with the mailbox in question once I use Mutt on it.
If I select a a message, Mozilla mail will display the wrong email.
Has anyone else experienced this/found a fix?


How exactly are you accessing the mail? Local, POP3, IMAP?


My guess is that he is directly reading the Mozilla mbox file; I do exactly the same thing from campus - I ssh to my Debian box and open up mutt to look at the Mozilla mailboxes as Mozilla is automatically downloading email to them. What I use to keep everything behaving nicely is the read-only option on mutt;

mutt -R

does the trick (I actually use mutt -Ry to read an index of mailbox files that correspond to Mozilla folders).

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