[Gllug] Creating Maildirs

[Paul M]

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. I just can't get the problem
> > clear in my head. If I use mboxes, it's simple - mutt
> > just filters mail for reading into inbox, gllug,
> > debian-user and so on. How can I create a 'tree' of
> > maildirs to do this simple job? After I solved the problem
> > before, for years I just saw getmail pull the mail and mutt
> > present me with it neatly divided into folders.
> >
>
> 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

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