Mutt and Imap question

[James Freer]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Linda wrote:

> I'm taking Ping's suggestion and am trying Mutt for remote email access.
> I use dovecot with Maildir for the imap server. I can view the inbox fine but can't
> access the subdirectories
> 
> Here is the .muttrc lines that would be relevant
> 
> set spoolfile=imap://office-mail@star/
> set folder=imap://office-mail@star/
> set record=imap://office-mail@star/Sent
> set imap_user=office-mail
> mailboxes =/home/office-mail/Maildir/
>  mailboxes + `\
>  for file in ~/.maildir/.*; do \
>    box=$(basename "$file"); \
>    if [ ! "$box" = '.' -a ! "$box" = '..' -a ! "$box" = '.customflags' \
>        -a ! "$box" = '.subscriptions' ]; then \
>      echo -n "\"+$box\" "; \
>    fi; \
> done; \
>  for folder in ~/.maildir/*; do \
>    if [ -x $folder]; then \
>          box=$(basename "$folder"); \
>          for file in ~/.maildir/$box/.*; do \
>                 box2=$(basename "$file"); \
>                 if [ ! "$box2" = '.' -a ! "$box2" = '..' -a ! "$box2" = '.customflags'
> \
>                  -a ! "$box2" = '.subscriptions' ]; then \
>                    echo -n "\"+$box/$box2\" "; \
>                 fi; \
>          done; \
>     fi; \
>   done`
> 
> I am pretty sure I need to change ~/maildir to something but don't know what to use in
> its place.  Also I changed mailboxes from Mail to Maildir but it doesn't seem to change
> anything.
> 
>                  Thanks
>                   Linda

Can't help i gave up using Mutt and switched to Alpine which is great for remote 
mailboxes. Try the Mutt mail list if no one here can help.

james