Don't know if this helps with the problem, but I see a small "m" in your .muttrc, but at command prompt, you type Mail with capital "M" Two different directories.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:44 PM, David Woodfall <d...@dawoodfall.net> wrote: >>> * On 29 Apr 2014, David Woodfall wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Significant parts from .muttrc: >>>> >>>> set mbox_type=maildir >>>> set folder="$HOME/mail" >>>> set mbox="$HOME/mail" >>>> set spoolfile="$HOME/mail" >>> >>> >>> Your $folder may be the source of the problem. My hypothesis: if you >>> change that (to anything else, pretty much) and open up ~/mail directly, >>> you'll see it as intended. Since $folder is the directory in which >>> mailboxes are expected to be located -- i.e. there should be maildirs >>> *within* ~/mail -- mutt is searching it for mailboxes and unable to >>> treat it as a mailbox itself. >> >> >> This helps: >> >> set mask="!^\\.|^dovecot*|^tmp$|^new$|^cur$|^subscriptions$" >> >> Now I just set my mailboxes and everything else is hidden. > > > Well, I'm not quite out of the woods. Although mutt starts off in my > Inbox (using mutt -f ~/Mail) and it shows everything correctly, when > I change folder, to say view all my mailboxes, then I can't get back > into my Inbox. Inbox isn't listed anywhere that I can see, and the > only way seems to be to restart mutt -f ~/Mail. > > If I hit 'c' to change folder it just lists all my folders minus > Inbox. I guess I could make an Inbox folder and set that in procmail > to be default. Is that the proper way? I expect I would need to point > dovecot at it too. > > I tried commenting out the $folder as you suggested but it doesn't > seem to help. I also noticed that $MAIL was set to > /var/spool/mail/... so I also pointed that at ~/Mail. > > Dave
