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Re: procmail with mutt



On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:22:15AM -0500, Gerald Britton wrote:
> Thanks!  I've confirmed that the approach outlined below works. 
> However, I'm still quite curious about whether (and how) mutt can be
> made to read the messages in a directory.  I see from the mutt
> information, that MH format seems to cover this:
> 
> "An MH folder is a directory containing either a .mh_sequences or
> .xmhcache file. Messages are separate files that are numbered
> sequentially. MH is rarely used, most prefer the maildir format."
> 
> I created a .mh_sequences file in my folder (touch
> /var/mail/me/.mh_sequences) and started mutt with:
> 
> mutt -m MH -f /var/mail/me
> 
> Now, mutt starts without errors, but does not display the messages
> that are there.  I suppose it is looking for files with a particular
> naming convention.  Does anyone know what that is?
> 
> 
That's because (if I understand what went before) what you have is an
mbox file in the directory /var/mail/me, or am I misunderstanding?

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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)

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