Mike --
...and then Mike McNally said...
% I'm a new mutt user starting right in with a pretty advanced
% configuration, but I've read a lot, so it's time to ask questions.
Welcome!
%
% I have procmail sorting my mail into various dirs in ~/Mail. Each
Yep... Are you dropping things into your procmail folders by specifying
a trailing '/' like
:0
* condition
somebox/
to let procmail know that it's a maildir?
% message has a name like msg.BvJC, msg.gvJC. I had thought that setting
% mbox_type=Maildir would clue mutt into the way my mail is being kept,
% but it apparently doesn't.
All that does is tell mutt how new folders should be created; the default
is mbox, but you can specify any kind. Mutt will, however, read folders
of all 4 types (mbox, mh, mmdf, maildir) without any muttrc settings.
%
% When I start mutt it reads /var/spool/mike, which is not being used.
% What do I put in .muttrc to make mutt start up in ~/Mail/mbox (if mbox
% is a reserved word, I can change that).
You can either recompile and specify --with-homespool at ./configure time
or (I believe) set $spoolfile in your muttrc.
%
% Now the format problem... So I hit c ? and it displays the contents of
% ~/Mail as a regular directory display (like ls -l would). I want mutt
% to display the number of msgs in ea dir and maybe how many are
% read/unread in ea dir. But instead I get a dir display.
%
% So I arrow down and enter my default dir "mbox", and again I get the dir
% format:
% 1 drwxr-sr-x 9 mike mike 4096 sep 19 06:30 ../
% 2 -rw-------- 1 mike mike 27167 sep 18 18:58 msg.BvJC
% ......as above...................................... mcg.gvJC
I don't know what format this is, but it isn't maildir... IIRC, a
maildir is a directory of some name (like MuttBox or Debian or whatever)
containing three subdirs cur, tmp, new where the mail files themselves
sit. Mutt doesn't know what to do with these; it's just a directory
containing a bunch of files with funny names.
%
% So now I arrow down and hit return to enter the msg, kinda as if it were
% a dir, and finally I get the display of the one msg.
Sure; it's probably stored in mbox format.
%
% Summary of the main problem is: I want a mail reader not a directory
% browser. I installed mutt from a debian package. It's 1.0.1i. Does
% the answer involve getting the new ver and using some specific compiler
% options?
All of this doesn't have to do with mutt; it sounds like procmail isn't
creating maildirs properly. To see how one should look, leave in your
mbox_type command, open any one of these files, and save it to a new
mailbox like =TestNewMaildir and then see how the dir structure looks.
%
% mike
:-D
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