On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 02:14:40PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: > 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>
> If your spool mailbox is in a non-default place where Mutt cannot > find it, you can specify its location with this variable. Right, I read muttrc(5) when I was responding. While it doesn't explicitly specify that it can be something other than a local path, the basic idea is correct. It's just that "spool mailbox" I think here refers to your main inbox vs. "a literal local file / directory", though I agree the docs could make it more clear. If you look at the examples for IMAP linked here: https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/wikis/ConfigList or other examples of configuring Mutt for IMAP, some / most of them should set spoolfile, though w
