Re: Saving keystrokes chaning to dot directories with maildir
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 01:02:20PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [05-14-06 11:15]:
> > Like many maildir users, all of my folders under ~/Maildir are "dot"
> > folders (to make them properly available to the IMAP server). Changing to
> > and saving to folders in mutt requires an extra "." before the folder
> > name, and between folders. One way around this is to point mutt at the
> > local IMAP server, rather than at ~/Maildir, but this is slower and
> > prohibitively for text searching large folders. Is there any way to make
> > the leading dot "invisible" to mutt?
> easily. Create a sym-link with any name you wish (system compatible,
> of course), then list the sym-link in your ~/.muttrc under mailboxes.
Thanks. That's an excellent solution. I was just thinking too much inside
the box.
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Adam Rosi-Kessel
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