On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 12:49:09AM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> Hello Dennis,
>
> It might be better to send your emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that
> other people have the chance to see them too, and reply to them. They
> might have better answers than I do...
>
Sorry, I thought I had. This is my first message to the list using mutt so I
hope it is OK.
> That depends on how you saved to that folder... If you typed the full
> path ("/home/dennis/Mail/me") then I find it very strange that Mutt
> would create the folder in the wrong place. If you didn't specify a
> path and only used "me", then the folder is created in the directory
> where Mutt is started in (usually, your home directory). If you want
> to refer to ~/Mail/, the most common method is to specify that as
> your $folder ("set folder=~/Mail") and then use the = or + shortcut,
> eg. "=me" for "~/Mail/me".
One reason for my problems was not using = or +; thanks.
>
> > That is how I created all the "mailboxes" in /home/dennis/Mail which
> > mutt says are not mailboxes.
>
> This is very strange. (It works for me, and lots of other people...)
>
> > Yes I am using mbox. Here are the first few lines requested:
> >
> > >From dennis Wed Jun 21 15:51:27 2000
> > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Ok, that looks fine.
>
> I do hope that the > in front of that From on the first line was created
> either by your email program, or in transit, because if it's present
> there in your mail folder file, then that would certainly mess things
> up. If it does say "From " and not ">From " then that should be a valid
> mbox, and Mutt should open it.
>
It was the email program or transit. What I have done is copy the first two
lines of the From script to every mail folder and they now all work.
Thanks again; I know I will enjoy mutt when I have figured out how to use it.
Regards.
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