On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:55:42AM -0400, Tim Gray wrote: > On Sun 19, Jul'09 at 10:03 PM -0600, lee wrote: >>> mailboxes `/path/to/script/listbox.py /path/to/mail/folders` >> >> Thanks! Doesn't that need to produce some output, or does mutt have a >> way to assign the content of "dirs" from the script to "mailboxes"? > > The command in your muttrc ends up looking like "mailboxes +mailbox1 > +mailbox2", which is the syntax mutt wants.
Oh. I was trying the script from the command line just to see what it would do, and it didn't produce any output. It seems the script fills a variable it uses. I'm wondering how mutt knows that it needs to take its information from this variable. BTW, I ended up making a list for the MUA I was trying out. I cleaned things up and found I got 173 maildirs. I converted the list so that mutt can use it. Now things would be a lot easier to find if mutt had a hierarchical display for the mailfolders. I hope I can at least turn off the sorting, but I haven't looked into that yet. >> And it would require that there are exclusively maildirs in the >> directory you supply as parameter to the script because it doesn't >> distinguish between maildirs and directories. That's a distinction a >> script needs to make. > > Well, it was a quick script I wrote for *my* purposes. Sorry, I didn't mean to complain. Don't get me wrong, I was only trying to explain what a script would need to do. Maybe I should try to write one, could be fun. > If you run mboxes instead of maildirs, you'd want to look for files > and ignore directories, instead of vice-versa. Yeah --- but it's only that I have an old mbox file or two around from before I switched to maildir. The first MUA I tried on Linux was pine ... I think I also tried elm, but I wasn't happy with them. Then I found out that there's mutt. That must have been around 1993--1995. Thanks to mutt, I've never lost a mail. It has always been reliable. That's awesome work the developers are doing. Thanks! > Furthermore, I believe for a technically correct maildir structure, you > shouldn't have subdirectories in that top level folder. See: > <http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Maildir> Ah, I have what they show under point "2. custom layout of separate Maildirs", the bottom version. When cleaning up, I found a directory that was a maildir but contained other maildirs instead of mails, so I changed that. Having maildirs that also contain other maildirs or directories isn't a good idea. > I wanted to keep my mail compatible with an IMAP server if I so chose, so > I am using the #1 suggestion in the link. So I have 'subfolders' named > like so: > work.misc > work.proj1 Hm. Does it really matter? When you transfer the mail to IMAP, how do you create the folders on the IMAP server? >> A script to automatically set up the mailboxes would have to check all >> directories under ~/Mail and create mailbox statements for only those >> that are maildirs. > > See above. Not an issue in my case. Feel free to modify the code to > suit your purposes. If you have a limited number of folders, you could > always just call the code multiple times: Thanks! But I don't know python --- I might try where I get to with a bash script, maybe using find ... But now that I have the list, I could try to keep them up to date.
