Re: mbox problem on new system

2016-07-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 08:51:47PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 11:10:45AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 10:19:44PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > When I open mutt on the old machine, I get a list of all the > > > mailboxes for the current month.

Re: mbox problem on new system

2016-07-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 11:10:45AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 10:19:44PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > 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 mailb

Re: mbox problem on new system

2016-07-08 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 10:19:44PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > 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. How do you invoke mutt? Do you have an alias? What is the value of $sp

Re: mbox problem on new system

2016-07-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 05:31:18PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Ken Moffat [07-07-16 17:26]: > > > > 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). > > > > When I ope

Re: mbox problem on new system

2016-07-07 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Ken Moffat [07-07-16 17:26]: > 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 (

mbox problem on new system

2016-07-07 Thread Ken Moffat
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 la