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"Compatible migration from Emacs/Mew to mutt...formats?



Hi,

 I am very new to mutt. Recently I did change my editor from Emacs to
 vim.

 For complete this switch, I want to replace the Emacs/Mew for reading
 mail by mutt to use vim here also.

 Mew does basically the following:

 Read mail from /var/spool/mail/mccramer
 Apply a set of regexp and depending of matching/not matching the
 mails are sorted into

 $HOME/Mail/<folder>/<one file per mail>

 "<folder>" depends on what regexp has matched

 "<one file per mail>" is a single file for each mail. In each
 separate folder all files are numbered from 1 upto <count of mails
 stored in this folder so far>.
  

 My current mail processing scheme is as follows: 
 fetchmail->exim->spamassassin->exim->/var/spool/mail/mccramer

 Cause this setup works fine and "kills" any spam I dont want to
 change this. I plan to setup fdm or procmail to read mails from 
 /var/spool/mail/mccramer and sort them into $HOME/Mail/<folders>.

 But! :)
 To not to loose Mail I copier $HOME/Mail to $HOME/Mailmutt and tried
 to convince mutt to read my mails already stored in the folders.

 No luck.

 I was said, that the mail format I use would be "Maildir". After
 haveing no luck with this settings, I thought my mail format would be
 "MH" ... but also no luck.

 What initial setting do I need to read $HOME/Mailmutt/.... ?

 After setting up reading mail and fdm/procmail I will proceed
 further.
 
 The first step I need to get successfully working is to read this 
 mail format. If it is not possible to handle my old mails, I
 unfortunately have to skip mutt, since I dont want to have Emacs/mew
 *and* mutt installed just to be able to handle all my mail.

 Thank you very much in advance for any help!

 Kind regards,
 Meino Cramer