And if you start mutt with "mutt -y" it will startup showing a list of mailboxes along with how much mail is in them.
Pat On Sun Jan 24, 1999 at 02:47:39PM -0700, JD wrote: > Quoting Peter Berlau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 11:19:45PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > > > > I would like to drop pine to move to mutt but my main problem is that mutt > > > does not seem to have a folder listing like pine. I like the folder > > > listing as it allows me to move through all my folders and see if they > > > have new messages. > > You can add the folders in Your ~/.muttrc like > > mailboxes ! = jmb != thomas !=rainer ! =debian-de ! =debian-us !=debian > > mailboxes ! =isdn ! =~/Mail/slink ! =tex ! =Mail/mbox ! =sahrens > > I don't know if the '!' is always needed, but it works > > Actually, the only folders that you need to define in this manner, are the > ones that you want Mutt to watch for new mail, such as various folders that > you may have procmail dump mail into. Beyond that, anytime you are changing > folders, or saving to a folder, just hitting '?' will give you a list of all > available folders. And lastly, no, the ! is not needed except the one time. > That merely tells mutt to monitor your spool for new mail. Beyond that, the > '=' tells mutt to expand from your defined Mail directory. the above > statement could be condensed down to something like: > > mailboxes ! =jmb =thomas =rainer =debian-de =debian-us =debian =isdn > > You get the picture. This also assumes that you want mutt to watch ALL of > these folders for new mail. You would also want to: set folder=~/Mail so > that mutt know where to start expanding from... > > HTH, > jdk > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
