Hi, I'm an inveterate mbox user (that goes back to the days when ext2/3 were reputed to not like vast numbers of files in a directory).
I'm now building a new machine to replace the current antiquated box I use as my home server. The current server (x86_64 linux) was last rebuilt in September last year with coreutils-8.24, gcc-5.2 and for a few weeks it has been running mutt-1.6.1. The new base system is from a few months ago, with coreutils-8.25 and gcc-5.3 (the base is linuxfromscratch - old is 7.8, new is 7.9, and everything after is from development BLFS - 'beyond linuxfromscratch'). In ~/.muttrc I have set folder="~/Mail" and ~/Mail is a symlink to ~/mailboxes/Jul/ for this month's mails (and also symlinks to some other mboxes). As part of bringing up the new machine I have copied /home from the old one (will need to repeat that when I'm ready for the real changeover), to sort out the many problems which I expect to encounter. But I did not expect that mutt would now cause me pain. When I open mutt on the old machine, I get a list of all the mailboxes for the current month. But on the new machine I get /home/ken/Mail is not a mailbox. I had built 1.6.2 because it got announced just before I got to that point, but reverting to 1.6.1 is no different. I mentioned the changed version of coreutils because on the old machine 'ls -l ~/Mail' shows it is a symlink whereas on the new one it shows the contents of the directory to which it points : that confused me for a while, but 'file' confirmed it was a symlink as expected. I *can* use it, by keying 'c ?' for a list of the mailboxes, but that is awkward when things used to just work. Any ideas what I can do to open the directory of mailboxes directly, the way I used to, please ? ĸen -- Brave Sir Nigel ran away! When reality reared its ugly head, Sir Nigel turned his tail and fled. Brave brave brave Sir Nigel.
