Re: IMAP questions
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:20:07PM -0700, Martin Swift wrote:
> Hey Chris,
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 07:34:22PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > I've set my spoolfile and folder as suggested in "Mutt and IMAP" in
> > the documentation. I can now browse some of my mail on the remote
> > machine as I expected, however there are some things I don't
> > understand.
>
> So the problems from your previous email are solved?
>
No, I'm just seeing how mutt looks when set up as above but on a
system where I have local mail as well. I.e. as well as asking the
question I'm trying things out.
> > If I save some mail to, for example, 'test1' then I can retrieve
> > it by going to '=test1' but I can't see it using '?', all that '?'
> > shows me is the INBOX.
> >
> > The mail saved to 'test1' is actually saved in $HOME/INBOX/test1.
> >
> > How do I set up a hierarchy of mailboxes on the IMAP server which I
> > can navigate starting with '?'.
>
> To what is $folder set now? Try adding INBOX or INBOX. to the present
> value.
folder is set to imap://<ip address>/
Adding INBOX to the end of that has had no effect at all.
>
> If that doesn't work, this may:
>
> imap_home_namespace
>
> Type: string
> Default: ""
>
> You normally want to see your personal folders alongside your INBOX in
> the IMAP browser. If you see something else, you may set this variable
> to the IMAP path to your folders.
>
No, that doesn't appear to have done anything either, but I'm not
quite clear waht it means by "the IMAP path to your folders". I tried
setting imap_home_namespace="/home/chris/Mail" which is where my saved
mail is kept (and is seen using ? by a local mutt) but still nothing
appeared when using ? on my remote mutt using IMAP.
It may well actually be much more simple and sensible to just ssh onto
the remote system and run mutt locally there now I come to think about
it.
--
Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."