Ben Beuchler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 27 Mar 2000:
> I am using mutt 1.1.9. I have $mbox set to "=read" and it does indeed
> save all read messages there. However, when I attempt to change to that
> folder, it just shows me the actual mail file rather then a list of
> messages.
Do you mean that Mutt displays all of the contents of that mail folder
as a flat file, instead of displaying a message index for that folder?
That would indicate that Mutt isn't detecting that it's a mail folder.
(Normally, Mutt will automatically detect a mail folder -- in fact there
is no way to force Mutt to treat some file or dir as a mail folder, the
auto-detection is always used.)
If this is the case, then you need to find out why that is happening.
The most likely reason is that the folder is corrupt. However I'm a
bit surprised, because I think Mutt would refuse to even save messages
to a mail folder if it can't detect the type correctly.
If you save some message to a new (previously non-existing) mail folder
and then open this with Mutt, do you get the message index or the folder
file contents too?
> Is it
> possible that I missed a couple of settings that should've been changed
> when I switched from IMAP to a local mail spool?
Unlikely, the folder type detection should be automatic like I said.
The older folder-type related setting in Mutt is $mbox_type, which
controls the folder format for *newly created* folders.
Regards,
Mikko
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