It is not clear from the manual against what the folder-hook command matches the given pattern.
Let's say my folders are under /home/itz/foobar/ , and /home/itz/Mail is a symbolic link to foobar. Let us further assume the following is set globally: set folder=~/Mail (I can neither confirm nor deny that this is in fact the case :) Which of the following will fire when entering /home/itz/foobar/inbox ? folder-hook ^inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar" folder-hook ^=inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar" folder-hook Mail/inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar" folder-hook ~/Mail/inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar" folder-hook foobar/inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar" folder-hook ~/foobar/inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar" folder-hook /home/itz/Mail/inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar" folder-hook /home/itz/foobar/inbox "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar" Now assume in addition that inbox is in fact a maildir. Will this match, and similarly for all the other variants? folder-hook ^inbox/ "my_hdr X-Foo: Bar" Thanks for your kind attention ... -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.