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Re: mailboxes



* Iván Forcada Atienza <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> :
> 
> El 15/Feb/06 - 17:20, Troy Piggins dijo:
> > * scwang@xxxxxxxxx <scwang@xxxxxxxxx> :
> > > I specify mailboxes as following:
> > > 
> > > set folder = ~/.maildir
> > > mailboxes =lcs
> > > mailboxes =ml-fvwm
[snip similar mailbox names]
> > > 
> > > Because I have many mailboxes in .maildir that I want
> > > them to be specified by mailboxes directive, it's tedious
> > > to do it as above. Does mailboxes directive support some
> > > something like regular expression? For example, I wish I 
> > > can specify that all mailboxes starting from 'ml' are
> > > mailboxes as following:
> > > 
> > > mailboxes =ml*
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately, it seems mailboxes directive doesn't support
> > > this specification currently. Is there another alternative
> > > for this?
> > 
> > Try: 
> > 
> > mailboxes `echo ml*`
> 
> Yep, this works with local folders but it would be very usefull to apply
> this to, in example, a remote imap server with hundreds of public
> folders. It's really annoying, as you can imagin ;-). Any other
> solution for this?

Not sure mate.  Never used imap from mutt.  And hundreds of
mailboxes, well, I only have about 20 so wouldn't know.  For what
it's worth, 20 is fine :-)

Sorry couldn't help.

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Troy Piggins
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