Re: procmail with mutt
On 1/17/06, Chris Green <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
Nope, in the directory /vavr/mail/me. I have:
$ ls -A /var/mail/me
.mh_sequences msg.7QdS msg.ChmU msg.MSbU msg.V_WF msg.amXT
msg.ikDB msg.sXSF msg.sXbU msg.uWtL msg.wWtL msg.x3cS
Mutt opens it correctly, but does not display the messages. I'm
wondering it Mutt is looking for some specific file naming convention
that it doesn't find here.
>
> --
> Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)
>
> "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
>