* Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> [07-07-16 17:26]: > Hi, > > I'm an inveterate mbox user (that goes back to the days when ext2/3 > were reputed to not like vast numbers of files in a directory). > > I'm now building a new machine to replace the current antiquated > box I use as my home server. The current server (x86_64 linux) was > last rebuilt in September last year with coreutils-8.24, gcc-5.2 and > for a few weeks it has been running mutt-1.6.1. The new base system > is from a few months ago, with coreutils-8.25 and gcc-5.3 (the base > is linuxfromscratch - old is 7.8, new is 7.9, and everything after > is from development BLFS - 'beyond linuxfromscratch'). > > In ~/.muttrc I have > > set folder="~/Mail" > > and ~/Mail is a symlink to ~/mailboxes/Jul/ for this month's mails > (and also symlinks to some other mboxes). > > As part of bringing up the new machine I have copied /home from the > old one (will need to repeat that when I'm ready for the real > changeover), to sort out the many problems which I expect to > encounter. But I did not expect that mutt would now cause me > pain. > > When I open mutt on the old machine, I get a list of all the > mailboxes for the current month. But on the new machine I get > > /home/ken/Mail is not a mailbox. > > I had built 1.6.2 because it got announced just before I got to that > point, but reverting to 1.6.1 is no different. > > I mentioned the changed version of coreutils because on the old > machine 'ls -l ~/Mail' shows it is a symlink whereas on the new one > it shows the contents of the directory to which it points : that > confused me for a while, but 'file' confirmed it was a symlink as > expected. > > I *can* use it, by keying 'c ?' for a list of the mailboxes, but that > is awkward when things used to just work. > > Any ideas what I can do to open the directory of mailboxes directly, > the way I used to, please ?
consider alias alias mutt='mutt -f <Mail.location>' besure to revise ~/.muttrc (and/or /etc/muttrc) to reflect proper mail box locations. from one stil using mbox :) -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net
