On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 02:57:27PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 04:00:07AM +0100, David Woodfall wrote: > > I've just set up dovecot/procmail on a debian VPS and when using mutt > > with maildir, as I navigate around, I see the new/ cur/ tmp/ folders > > and inside the actual file names of the mail. > > > > On my home box I connect locally to the imap server so I don't see > > this, but is there a better way of viewing maildir without seeing > > these folders and just seeing mail as normal? > > set mbox_type=maildir should let mutt know it's looking at a maildir > structure.
AFAIU, that setting, creates a maildir structure when creating a new mailbox to save to. It can "see" mbox or maildir structures regardless of that setting. Please enlighten me if I am wrong. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X