Mutt and Imap question

[Linda]

On 11/14/2012 12:43 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:26:59PM -0600, 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
> I use Mutt too, but I use offlineimap to get a copy of my IMAP mailbox
> locally.
>
>
>
> But since all the mailboxes live on the IMAP server, the bit of shell
> that enumerates mailboxes in your home directory isn't going to do any
> good.
>
> You can browse the mailboxes on the server in mutt if you press c, type
>
>    imap://office-mail@star/
>
> and then hit Tab twice.  You can subscribe to some of the folders there
> by hitting s, and if you add
>
>    set imap_check_subscribed
>
> to your muttrc, that should automatically add those IMAP mailboxes to
> your mailbox list, which you can browse by pressing y in the main list.
>
>
> As I said, I don't use Mutt with IMAP directly myself.  (My mailboxes
> tend to be large, which makes Mutt slow to open them, and IIRC I started
> using offlineimap before Mutt had a headers cache.)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Marius Gedminas
>
>
Thank you this is perfect most of the time I will never need 
to view anything but the inbox but I had to have a way to 
get to sub folders if necessary.
Now I can simplify the .muttrc to a few lines.  This lets me 
move on to understanding how to do multiple accounts.
                Linda

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