On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 01:04:10PM -0400, David T-G wrote:

> I don't think that it's related to how you enter them in your
> muttrc; have you actually tried doing it manually and seen different
> results?

Actually they did produce different results, but I was of course the
one to blaim for it. I had typed `echo Mail/*` instead of `echo
~/Mail/*` so it wasn't looking in my home directory. Works like a
charm now. Doesn't Mutt ever do anything wrong?:-)

> Note, though, that most folks typically have mail delivered to
> certain types of mailboxes that are easily recognizable by pattern;
> for me, for instance, it's Mail/F.*; for others it's Mail/I* or
> whatever.  Doing this can let you have a much smaller list of
> mailboxes to check as well as simplifying your echo trick above.

Thanks for the advice! That should simplify things a great deal.
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// André

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