Mark E. Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Mail to be forwarded from my hub to my local box (Linux + qmail), qmail
> delivering to my ~/Maildir but procmail filtering into Maildir format
> subdirs of ~/Maildir.
I don't think you quite understand what a maildir is. It has three
subdirectories: tmp, cur, and new. It is the maildir, plus these three
directories, that makes it a maildir. You really should not create
other subdirectories under ~/Maildir, because they are not part of the
maildir format. You should put folders in ~/Mail instead.
> When I start mutt, I want it to open up my "inbox", which currently is
> Maildir's standard ~/Maildir/new/, a directory, not a file.
You shouldn't specify the "new" directory directly; instead, specify it
as as ~/Maildir, and let Mutt add the "/new" part on its own; it will
figure it out. :)
> I have my $folder set to ~/Maildir but it still opens
> /var/spool/mail/mark by default [...]
$folder is not the location of your inbox. It is the location where you
normally store groups of folders. It is supstituted wherever you put
"=" or "+" at the start of a filename. That is all. So if you set
$folder to "~/Mail" and then reference a folder called "+mutt", it will
reference the folder called "~/Mail/mutt".
> I cannot set spoolfile to ~/Maildir/new/ since that is not a file.
The $spoolfile variable gives the location of your inbox. I guess
"file" is sort of a historical misnomer here, because you can, and
indeed should, point it to the directory where your maildir is. In
other words, "set spoolfile=~/Maildir" will do the trick.
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