I am transfering over from mbox-type mailboxes to MH-format ones, ie the one-email-per-file format, because I want to be able to pull various emails out from the different folders they are in and quote them more easily in vim when I am writing. (There is readmsg, but I can't browse with it, the way I can browse files with vim.) The problem is mutt's browser after the change. Before, with mbox-type mailboxes, folder_format="%N %F %2l %-8.8u %-8.8g %8s %d %f" told me if there had been changes (%N), and the size in bytes (%s). After, with the folders being directories, however, %N is not telling me whether there have been new emails (files) added. And the size of the directories doesn't change (1024) depending on how many files there are in them. So the whole browser is pretty useless. What I have done is set sort_browser=reverse-date, to put the most recently modified browsers on top, but I would prefer for the order not to keep on changing. I would prefer the order to be alphabetical. Thinking about this, I am wondering if it because I have biff n in .bash_login, and I am leaving emails in my spool mailbox, (ie set move=no), rather than moving them to $mbox. Perhaps not, because even before I switched over from mbox-type mailboxes, I also had problems with this part from 3.10. Defining mailboxes which receive mail, "When changing folders, pressing space will cycle through folders with new mail." That didn't work for me. So this is the question. How do I use the directory/file browser more effectively with one-email-per-file formats? A more general interest however is in how other people use their editors and mutt to work together to copy and quote email. -- Greg Matheson Chinmin College, Taiwan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
