Using Maildir format, changing mailbox
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mutt-ml at mail.com
Fri Jun 5 14:15:10 UTC 2020
I used to use Mutt way back in the day and, well, I haven't found
anything better, so am returning to the fold. Kennel. Whatever.
I was never very happy with mbox format so thought I would try Maildir
instead. I've got it working, more or less, but my Mutt experience
seems quite "raw" in that the format I'm using bleeds through into the
user interface.
To explain: I have a number of different email accounts on a number of
different servers, and I do that for a number of reasons, one being
that my email is then effectively pre-filtered. Work email goes to,
say, someone at example.com, non-work email to somebody at example.org, and
so on. I want that to be the case with my local email experience as
well, so I've set up procmail to deliver into different directories
depending on where the email comes from/to:
# work
:0:
* ^(From|Cc|To).*someone at example.com
Work/
# play
:0:
* ^(From|Cc|To).*somebody at example.org
Play/
# rest
:0
Mail/
When I open Mutt it starts in the Mail mailbox. Okay, fair enough, it
has to start somewhere. But then I press 'c' to change mailbox and, if
I can't remember what mailboxes I have (seriously, I have a *lot*),
can press '?' to find them. Except there's the "leakage", I see the
cur, new, and tmp directories listed inside the Maildir directory.
Then, yes, I can go up a level and choose the mailbox I want.
All of this is a long-winded way of asking: is there a better way of
changing mailbox, please, given what I'm to do overall? Maybe I am
just missing a config setting? (he says, hopefully)
What I'd like is that when I press '?' I get a list of *mailboxes*
rather than directories, because, as a user, I'm really not interested
in directories, I only want to know about mailboxes.
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