Inbox folder doesn't work anymore

Russell L. Harris rlharris at oplink.net
Tue May 7 22:12:35 UTC 2019


On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 12:08:14AM -0300, Luciano ES wrote:
>The problem is that the Inbox folder is empty. And it shouldn't be.
>I can inspect that directory say, with a file manager, and it's loaded
>with messages.

Check two things:

(1) The only maildirs or mboxes of which Mutt is aware are those which
are specified in .muttrc by the "mailboxes" command.

(2) The base of the maildir or mbox structure is specified by the
"folder" command.  If I recall correctly, Mutt assumes "~/Mail" if no
base is specified.



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