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Re: what is the correct format to specify a new mailbox?



On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:00:44PM -0400, Angelina Carlton wrote:
 
> I use version Mutt 1.3.28i (2002-03-13) on my Debian Woody computer
> and in my .muttrc I specify mailboxes explicitly with:
> 
> mailboxes ~/mail/office ~/mail/family ~/mail/root ~/mail/gmail 
[...] 
> Looking at /usr/share/doc/mutt/examples/sample.muttrc.gz I see:
> 
> mailboxes ! +mutt-dev +mutt-users +open-pgp +wmaker +hurricane +vim 
> 
> So I set mine the same:
> 
> mailboxes ! +office +family +root +gmail
> 
> same error though.

Make sure you have $folder set properly, i.e.,

set folder=~/mail/

(the default is ~/Mail/)

Then you can use either + or = as a shortcut for a mailbox. ! is
shortcut for the inbox.

w