Re: several pop3 accounts / subfolders

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thursday, November  1 at 11:18 PM, quoth info:
>1)
>How do I specify several pop3 accounts and store the mails of each account 
>into a separate folder?

It's better to think of mutt as a "mail browser" than to think of it 
like other mail clients. With one exception, it doesn't automatically 
pull mail from a list of places (such as all your email accounts) and 
store it in other places (such as all your local folders). There are 
great dedicated tools for doing that (e.g. fetchmail or getmail). 
Instead, mutt just lets you look at what mail is stored in specific 
places, and manipulate it. So, for example, you can see what's on your 
POP3 servers, and you can look at as many as you like (just press c to 
tell mutt that you wish to look at a different pop3 account). Mutt 
doesn't "fetch" that email and store it locally unless you select 
messages on that pop3 server and tell mutt to save them somewhere else 
(locally, for example).

The one exception is that mutt allows you to define a $spoolfile, 
which is a mailbox (filename or IMAP or POP3 mailbox) that will be 
taken from and added to $mbox. But there can be only one $spoolfile.

>2)
>Does mutt support subfolders - if yes, how do I have to specify that?

Absolutely it does. And you specify it however is necessary for the 
storage you're browsing. Again, think of it as a browser rather than a 
command-line version of Outlook. If you tell it "mail is here", that's 
where mutt will look. So if you store your email in ~/mail with 
subfolders ~/mail/subfolder1 and ~/mail/subfolder2, you can tell mutt 
to read any of those. But you can rearrange your subfolders however 
you like (they don't even have to really be subfolders---as far as 
mutt's concerned, it's just another path to get to a mail folder)---a 
couple popular IMAP servers like storing subfolders on disk like this: 
~/mail/.INBOX.subfolder1.

~Kyle
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