I have tried several separators. None have worked. All I can guess is that this functionality isn't with how mutt handles maildir format. The globing must be part of the native imap support. It must use a glob itself to query the remote directories. Thus passing valid wildcards will work. Autocompletes off of the results of the glob.
If that's the case, then it sucks a bit. And the issue with reorganisation was with me. I stupidly forgot to turn off a background syncing job as I was changing the settings. -- Matthew Parnell m.parn...@lancaster.ac.uk > On 13 Feb 2016, at 18:07, Andreas Doll <fus...@posteo.de> wrote: > >> On 2016-02-13 at 16:22, Matthew Parnell wrote: >> I have just tried you suggestion. Other than doing a stupid thing where I >> now have to reorganise about 2000 messages and many duplicated, it also >> doesn't work. > > I'm not sure what went wrong. I recall there is an option to use offlineimap > to sync just remote to local, not vice versa, see the mentioned config > template for details. Maybe this saves you the reorganization. > >> I cannot autocomplete over those directories. Even with `sep = /`, and >> manually checking that it is indeed laid out in that way. > > A wild and untested guess: maybe use another character? > > Best regards, > Andreas
