On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 10:56:28AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote:
The variable spoolfile has nothing to do with IMAP, and does not affect it.
I disagree; from what I can see, the _naming_ of $spoolfile is vestigal
and comes from before mutt supported IMAP, but it _does_ affect mutt's
behavior, and you can configure it to point to an IMAP mailbox.
Huh. Then the documentation is vestigial too.
I just searched the manual for occurrences of "spoolfile". Found 16,
none of which mention IMAP; all examples are local pathnames.
One of the 16 is this:
<http://mutt.org/doc/manual/#spoolfile>
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3.365. spoolfile
Type: path
Default: (empty)
If your spool mailbox is in a non-default place where Mutt cannot find
it, you can specify its location with this variable. Mutt will
initially set this variable to the value of the environment variable
$MAIL or $MAILDIR if either is defined.
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