Hello Muttusers,
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:50:41AM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote:
> Mike McNally muttered:
> > I have procmail sorting my mail into various dirs in ~/Mail. Each
> > message has a name like msg.BvJC, msg.gvJC. I had thought that setting
> > mbox_type=Maildir would clue mutt into the way my mail is being kept,
> > but it apparently doesn't.
>
> Mutt should be able to determine the format automaticly. If it doesn't
> do this correctly, your dirs are probably no correct Maildirs. The
> $mbox_type variable is only used when mutt itself writes out messages
> to a new folder, i.e. when you save to a new folder $mbox_type controls
> whether that folder will be a Maildir or mbox, ...
>
> Most likely something is wrong with your procmail setup. Only the
> newest version (3.14) does support Maildir.
>
> :0
> * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> foo/
> ^ Note the slash at the end. This tells procmail that the
> destination is a Maildir.
What are the advantages/disadvantages of the different types of
Mailboxes/Maildirs? Where could I read something about this?
What's better if you want to search thousand's of Mails?
Are there any helpful tools I could use for it?
> 1.0.1 is quite old. Upgrading could solve some of your probs anyway.
> I don't know about any debian specials but getting the newest stable
> tarball (1.2.5) from ftp://mutt.org and a normal ./configure; make;
> make install should be enough for most systems.
Here is a deb of Mutt 1.2.5
http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/mail/
it works fine with potato.
(Although there's a Package muttzilla, which give you
the possibility to use mailto: links in Netscape Navigator)
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