I'm really starting to feel pretty desperate about this. I've set up a complete sendmail/procmail/fetchmail system that works perfectly fine. .procmailrc is about 200 lines long and delivers to a pretty large Folder tree in ~/Mail, where ~/Mail/inbox is the main inbox and ~/Mail/inbox/* are the different subfolders (which also contain subfolders themselves). ~/Mail/(sent|drafts|spam|trash) catch the mail they are supposed to catch by name. All mailboxes are in mh format (and all .procmail rules use '$FOLDER/.' style).
I fire up claws-mail, tell it to read ~/Mail and rebuild the folder tree - works like a snatch!
Brilliant and I'm quite happy with it. BUT, the original reason for me to set up all this was to use mutt.And that's where I'm probably missing something - probably a really stupid mistake... the mailboxes have the mandatory .mh_sequences file (claws-mail can read them). They ARE valid mh mailboxes! mutt however doesn't seem to care about that.
I set the $folder to ~/Mail and add "mailboxes =inbox" to my .muttrc, mutt says "no mailbox". If i set $folder to ~/Mail/inbox and omit the "mailboxes" entry, then it will say "/var/mail/my_username: no such file or directory (errno=2)" (and still say "no mailbox") and damnit, I never told it anything about /var/mail! There is no stuff in /var/mail on my system. And, yes, /etc/Muttrc is empty so as to not interfere with my mail setup.
I just can't get it to read any mail in mh format. I already succeeded in setting it up for maildir, and tried to use a similar setup for this blasted mh, but it just refuses to see anything. Damn, mutt is essentially not more than an fs-browser, why does it fail?
That's just a temporary .muttrc
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set folder="~/Mail"
set postponed="+drafts"
set mbox=+inbox
# set mbox_type=mh
set editor=gvim
# mailboxes =inbox
set record=+sentI'm very thankful for any pointer in the right direction
Regards
EDIT:
OK, forget it. It was stupid and I am dumb. Just forgot the $spoolfile entry. *mumble* *mumble*. OK, it seems to be working now.