bug#1817: marked as done (Allow the user to specify a directory containing mailboxes)
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From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Allow the user to specify a directory containing mailboxes
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It would be nice if one could specify a directory to the mailboxes
directive instead of a list of mailboxes. For years, I've used the
following construct:
mailboxes ! `find ~/mail -type f -maxdepth 1 -not -name '.*' -printf '%p ' `
It accomplishes most of what I want, but is messy because it won't
respond to new mailboxes until mutt is restarted. I find myself
periodically hitting tab in the mailbox list to see if my MDA has
created any new mailboxes in ~/mail (since it does this about every
day for me). The reason why I don't just use the directory listing
mode all the time is that mutt won't indicate new mail (with 'N')
in this mode and that feature is indispensable.
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 02:57:20 -0800
From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Nicolas Rachinsky <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: bug#1817: Allow the user to specify a directory containing
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:29:01AM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
> You could use a macro which executes unmailboxes *, your mailboxes
> command from above and then shows you the list.
Thanks for your advice! This works great. I'm closing the bug.
I'd post the macro, but it's way too ugly.