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Re: User's inbox



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On Thursday, July 10 at 09:25 PM, quoth Rem P Roberti:
> I have a fundamental lack of understanding on something.  I am using 
> Mutt with FreeBSD 7.0.  I have a number of mailboxes designated in my 
> muttrc that Procmail delivers to...for example:

> All of those mailboxes, with the exception of "inbox", are actual 
> folders.

Okay...

> Inbox, on the other hand is not a folder, but rather a file, to 
> which are appended all of the email which is not put in named 
> folders by Procmail.

....okay....

> Why is it that the inbox cannot itself have its own folder instead 
> of just being a file?

It *can*; you just have to configure things correctly. I'm guessing, 
since mutt has no such restrictions, that this is a problem in your 
procmailrc. Make sure that the inbox delivery line ends in a slash 
(/), so that procmail knows that it needs to be in Maildir format. 
(also, you'll need to move the existing inbox out of the way, 
otherwise procmail will get mad).

> You know, a folder containing cur, new, and tmp.

That's a Maildir.

~Kyle
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