On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 09:35:43PM +1100, Grant Beattie wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 10:32:49AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
>
> > I am using mutt with Maildir, it appears not to be able to find its
> > Maildir 'mailboxes' properly.
> >
> > I have a Maildir called 'purchases' for example. If when reading new
> > incoming mail (which works fine, mail in $HOME/Maildir) I hit 'c' to
> > change mailbox and then enter 'purchases' I get the message "purchases
> > is not a mailbox". however if I hit ? to get a list of mailboxes then
> > 'purchases' is there and I can select it successfully.
>
> you need to use =purchases or +purchases.
>
> = and + expand to your "folder" variable in .muttrc.
>
Of course, I always forget this! Thanks. (I'd got used to the
situation where folders with *new* mail appear automagically when you
hit 'c')
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