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[Remco Rijnders]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 01:40:43AM +0000, Globe wrote in 
<mailman.14581.1603330850.40933.mutt-users at mutt.org>:

>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.

It did. But due to you using yahoo mail (not your fault) and the way
yahoo has configured their domain, using a yahoo email address with
mailing lists doesn't work too well. In this case it makes it harder
for people to reply to your messages as your messages are being
encapsulated in another message to work around this feature of
yahoo. I can't tell for certain, but this might be why you haven't
received a reply to your question yet.

>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

If these are all the mailboxes you have, it might be easiest to just
include these "as is" in your .muttrc. So:

mailboxes +inbox
mailboxes +sent
etc.

>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' "`

If you run the command between the two back ticks at the shell prompt,
do you get the output you expect? I notice that it seems to add a "+ "
at the very start without any further mailbox name before listing the
other mailboxes. I wonder if this is what causes the unexpected
behavior. You might want to leave the 'echo -n "+ ";' part out.


>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)------

This is not what you would expect. As it shows, mutt opened
/var/spool/mail/itsme instead of any of the folders you'd like it
to. When you use the 'c' command, can you then open your folders such
as ~/Maildir/inbox ?