Re: How can I specify a mailbox in Mutt?
* On Wed, May 26, 2004 Larry Alkoff (labradley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> When I execute Mutt 1.4.1i in Slackware 9.1
> I get an error message that states
> "/home/lba/Mail is not a mailbox"
> or
> "/home/lba/Maildir" is not a mailbox
> depending on how I have set the $MAIL.
>
> Both of these subdirectories are set up with permissions as follows:
> drwx------ 7 lba users 4.0K May 23 18:37 Mail/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 lba users 8.0K May 26 08:27 Maildir/
> How do I tell Mutt that one of these is my mailbox?
Well are these mailboxes or are they simply directories?
I presume the latter and in that case you might what to set
spoolfile or $MAIL to ~/Mail/inbox
and folder=~/Mail
HTH,
Michael
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