listing Maildir folders and sub-folders in mutt

Globe Trotter itsme_410 at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 22 01:40:43 UTC 2020


My aoologies for the earlier attempts at sending e-mail. But I am new to mutt (as of today) and do not have my mailer set up  and trying to get started. I hope this goes through in plain-text format.

My set up is as follows: I use fetchmail and procmail to get my mail delivered to Maildir mailboxes. So,my mail is inside folders in ~/Maildir in the following manner:


~/Maildir/inbox
~/Maildir/sent
~/Maildir/drafts
~/Maildir/work/
~/Maildir/work/user1
~/Maildir/work/user2
~/Maildir/bills
~/Maildir/family


etc. I want to show this tree on a side-pane. So, my initial attempt at .muttrc has the following: modified from mutt & Maildir Mini-HOWTO


set mbox_type=Maildir
set folder="~/Maildir"
mailboxes `echo -n "+ "; find ~/Maildir -type d -name "*" -printf "+'%f' "`


However, when I launch mutt, I get nothing and after a lot of blank stares on-screen, I get: Mutt:/var/spool/mail/itsme [Msgs: 0 Inc: 20]----(date/date)--------(all)------



I was wondering if I could get some advice and help on how to do this. I plan on sending mail through postfix (localhost:25). 


My apologies for my questions and thank you for your help!


GT





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