[Gllug] Creating Maildirs

[john gennard]

On Tue, 15 May 2007, "Paul M" <tallus at gmail.com> wrote

On 5/15/07, Anthony Newman <anthony.newman at ossified.net> wrote:

 >> john gennard wrote:
 >
 >>> >
 >>> > I need maildirs for an inbox, gllug, debian-user, Tom,
 >>> > Dick and Harry etc, so I created a maildir in Mail and
 >>> > then a maildir folder 'inbox' within that to see what
 >>> > happens. getmail retrieves OK, logs to /.getmail/log,
 >>> > but puts the mail into ~/Mail/Maildir/cur and mutt says
 >>> > there are no mail boxes...... [snipped]

 >>
 >> Sub-folders within a maildir are dot-delimited rather than 
nested, >> so your directory structure will look something like:
 >>

 > Thats actually the Extended MailDir format
 > (http://wiki.mutt.org/?ExtendedMaildirFormat) though it's still the
 > right one to go for.

 > The Mutt FAQ has instructions for getting it working with Mutt

 > http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Maildir

Phew! This will take me time to work through. And you can see how
an old geezer gets confused, for the second URL under 'Custom layout 
of separate Maildirs' puts them under 'Mail' and not 'Maildir'.
I'll see what I can do with all the help I've received from the list.

John.



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