Hi, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05/28/02 04:41:37 CEST] wrote: > I am new to mutt. Coming from Win/Eudora, I hope you can > imagine it's quite a transition. Still I can see why so > many people are enthusiastic about this application.
For good reasons... > I have a question that I hope is easy to solve for > experienced users. > In .muttrc I have: "mailboxes +IN-foobarA +IN-foobarB" > and also: "mbox-hook =IN-foorbarA =foobarA" etc. > Now for every new mailbox I want to use, I need to edit > .muttrc in at least two locations. Is it possible, given > the naming conventions, to have only one entry for > mailboxes and only one line with mbox-hook. You can use backticks to configure mutt by commands. Given that, use something like: mailboxes `ls -d ~/.mutt/IN.*` and a short shell script which will do the mbox-hooks. Cheers, Rocco.