mutt and maildir++ format

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

I have been using mutt for years and had this in my .muttrc to watch for
new mail in different mailboxes:

mailboxes ! +BoxA +BoxB +BoxC +`echo $HOME/Mail/.*`

which worked well as long as I had symlinks between .BoxA and BoxA etc.

Now I am experimenting with a different setup to get my mutt to cope
directly with the maildir++ format (where mailboxes all begins with a
'.').

I came accross a mini-howto at http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Maildir
which suggested the following:

mailboxes + `\ 
 for file in ~/.maildir/.*; do \ 
   box=$(basename "$file"); \ 
   if [ ! "$box" = '.' -a ! "$box" = '..' -a ! "$box" = '.customflags' \ 
       -a ! "$box" = '.subscriptions' ]; then \ 
     echo -n "\"+$box\" "; \ 
   fi; \ 
done; \ 
 for folder in ~/.maildir/*; do \ 
   if [ -x $folder]; then \    
         box=$(basename "$folder"); \ 
         for file in ~/.maildir/$box/.*; do \ 
                box2=$(basename "$file"); \ 
                if [ ! "$box2" = '.' -a ! "$box2" = '..' -a ! "$box2" = '.customflags' \ 
                 -a ! "$box2" = '.subscriptions' ]; then \ 
                   echo -n "\"+$box/$box2\" "; \ 
                fi; \ 
         done; \ 
    fi; \ 
  done`


But for some reason this is not working at all.  I do not get any
indication where the new mail is.

Are there any mutt-boffins on this list that can help me with a
solution?

Regards
Johann.
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