Dennis --
...and then Dennis Robertson said...
% Hello,
% Before I give up and retire hurt to netscape can anyone tell me in words
*gasp*
% of one syllable how to create mailboxes that work. I get the message
The simplest way to create a mailbox is to touch the file into existence.
Of course, it's empty and there's no mail so mutt can't really do
anything with it, but it's there.
The second-simplest way is to save a message from your $spoolfile right
from mutt. This will create a mailbox of whatever type is specified in
$mbox_type (default is mbox, but also MH, MMDF, and Maildir).
You could always create a mailbox with Netscape and then use that with
mutt, as I understand it; I believe that Netscape uses mbox files.
% from mutt that every one of the "mailboxes" I have designated is not a
How did you "designate" them? Simply saying
mailboxes =A =B =C
is not enough to create them. Do they really exist? If you're using
shorthand as above, is $folder set correctly? To find out, check from
*within* mutt since some unnoticed muttrc file may have changed it; when
in the index, just type
:set ?folder
and hit return and see what it says. BTW, you can check any variable's
setting this way (replacing in the proper variable name, of course ;-)
and you might check the value of mbox_type while you're looking around.
% mailbox, even though I can see that procmail has delivered to them. I
% have read the manual at 3.11 and am none the wiser.
And how do you know that procmail delivered to them? In what format
(mbox, MH, MMDF, Maildir)? Is it a single file, or is it a directory
with cur new tmp subdirs? If it's a single file, open it with an editor;
how does it look?
% Thanks.
HTH & HAND
% --
% Dennis Robertson 2/2 Sylvia Street NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566 AUSTRALIA
% Phone: 61 7 54742343 Mobile: 0419 535539 Fax: Phone for setup.
:-D
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