Claws to Mutt

[Chris]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:53:28 +1000
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:

> On 19Jul2007 21:47, Chris <racerx at makeworld.com> wrote:
> | On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:44:40 -0400 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com>
> wrote: | > Chris wrote:
> | > > I have it working just fine as-is. The biggest issue I can see
> right | > > now, is the sub-folders I have my mail currently in.
> | > > 
> | > > IE: All Fedora mail goes to inbox/Fedora etc, etc, etc.
> | > > 
> | > > If I kept is simple from the git-go where all mail just went
> into | > > the inbox, I would be done.
> | > 
> | > What part of that is causing you work, getting the mail pulled
> down | > and sorted, or telling mutt how to find your mail?
> | > 
> | > I use fetchmail and procmail for the former.  The mailboxes
> command is | > what you set for the latter.
> | 
> | 	Forgive my ignorance on this - Since I use Claws, here is
> | something how my current Mail dir looks like (Claws uses MH, in
> | #HOME/Mail)
> | 
> | $HOME
> | 	Mail
> | 		inbox
> | 			Fedora
> | 			Fedora-DS
> | 			CentOS
> | 			Ubuntu
> | 			Etc, etc, etc
> 
> To tell mutt itself about this you need two settings:
> 
>   set folder=~/Mail/inbox
> 
> which specifies your top level mail folder and:
> 
>   mailboxes +Fedora +Fedora-DS +Centos +Ubuntu
> 
> which specifies which folders to watch for new mail. Mutt's "change
> folder" function has a show-folders mode with will show everything in
> ~/Mail/inbox without using the "mailboxes" setting.
> 
> | I can certainly pull mail from my ISP without issues, I'm unsure
> how to | now seperate them into the above while preserving the many
> emails that | currently live in the above dirs.
> 
> As Todd says, fetchmail to pull the mail and procmail to file it into
> the folders.
> 
> You have a lot of mail already filed in these folders - was Claws
> doing this filing for you?

Yes - this is correct. There is tons of mail in these folders.

-- 
Best regards,
Chris
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