On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 05:31:18PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> [07-07-16 17:26]: > > > > 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). > > > > 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. > > > > 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 :)
The problem is that they are NOT proper mailbox locations! With 1.6.1 on the old system I can point to a directory containing mailboxes and symlinks, but on the new system that gives me the error message. Until now, I have looked at the times on the mailboxes to see which had soemthing new. For the symlinks, they are either old stuff or the catch-all mymail - people who mail me directly can expect a delay of some hours before I look at that mailbox, because almost everything I am interested in is public and on lists (private stuff from people who tend to use html gets sent to a gmail account which I read in a browser or on my phone). I can use mutt -f Mail/mymail (which is the only current mailbox guaranteed to exist at the start of a month), but most of the time that will not be an improvement. I filter most incoming mails via procmail, what I would like to continue to do is just get a list of the currnet mailboxes and symlinks. What is really perplexing me is that mutt-1.6.1 on a slightly older system works the way I have been used to (probably for more than 10 years), but the same version on a current system works differently. Hmm, I suppose this might be a change in the linux kernel (the old system runs 4.1, the new one is 4.4). <insert rude words here> Thanks anyway. ĸen -- Brave Sir Nigel ran away! When reality reared its ugly head, Sir Nigel turned his tail and fled. Brave brave brave Sir Nigel.
