On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 09:52:19AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> I have a maildir which has mail delivered to it directly (i.e. it has
> cur, new and tmp directories in it) but it also has other maildir
> folders in it. Mutt doesn't seem to be able to cope with this at all,
> am I missing something or is it just not possible to handle this with
> mutt?
AFAIK you are not missing anything, although I'm not sure unable "to
cope with this at all" is totally accurate. I expect that if you give
mutt an explicit path to open it do so just fine. My guess is that
your problem is when trying to browse to the subdirectories?
Perhaps you (or anyone else reading this) can answer a related
question I have been wondering about for quite a while. Why on earth
would you want to put directories other than cur/new/tmp in a maildir?
This seems really broken to me. My understanding is that maildirs are
directories which contain cur/new/tmp, not directories containing
cur/new/tmp plus N other unrelated directories to confuse things.
My guess from past posts is that you are doing this because Courier
IMAP forces you to do so. Personally I think Courier is defective in
this regard, but the rest of my rant on that subject doesn't belong on
this list. IIRC courier also insists on beginning those directories
with a ".", which probably doesn't hurt mutt, but can't help.
Back to trying to provide constructive suggestions, how well does
Courier handle symlinks? I've never tried this, but could you move
your subfolders elsewhere and symlink to them? Or could you symlink
to those folders from elsewhere for mutt's benefit? IMAP servers may
chose not to follow symlinks for security reasons, but mutt shouldn't
have any trouble following symlinks. This isn't the most elegant
solution, but I don't have any better suggestions.
Brian
