"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