Re: To mbox or not, that is the question! (fwd)
On 2004-04-27, Mike M penned:
>
> I went from kmail to mutt and noticed the support for folder hierarchy
> in kmail is "special" and has hidden files associated with it. I was
> using mbox in kmail and I am now using Maildir in mutt.
[snip]
> Before I could use mutt to read the mbox folder system, I had to
> manually convert the folder names to non-hidden names. Once I had done
> that I found that some of my mbox files had grown unchecked for quite
> a while.
If I understand the issue properly, you could also put the following in
your .muttrc:
set mask=".*"
This will show *everything* in your directory, a la 'ls -a'. No need to
rename things.
--
monique
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