On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 17:15, Paul Tansom wrote: > Sometime on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:33:31PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant typed > out the following... > > > > /var/lib/dpkg/info should have the install scripts that the courier > > packages are trying to run. Perhaps looking in there will be > > insightfull. > > > ...and that's all Michael Heldebrant wrote I'm afraid > > Brilliant, thanks. Not quite sure why I didn't come across that myself but > it's done the trick. I found that /etc/courier/imapd was missing, and simply > doing a touch enabled me to do a clean remove, and I have not installed > successfully. Now to try and work out how to configure it not to use hidden > dot files so that my Mutt can work with it easily when I use it locally (which > I do most of the time for my account).
Not quite sure what you mean by hidden dot files. I run mutt -f Maildir to get mine. I'm pretty sure if you config mutt to look at your Maildirs with other maildir folders (the hidden dot files?) in them by playing with your .muttrc. Here is an excerpt to help whet your appetite for the man page: mailboxes filename [ filename ... ] This command specifies folders which can receive mail and which will be checked for new messages. When changing folders, pressing space will cycle through folders with new mail. --mike