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List:       mutt-dev
Subject:    bug#1817: Allow the user to specify a directory containing mailboxes
From:       Nicolas Rachinsky <list () rachinsky ! de>
Date:       2004-02-26 10:29:01
Message-ID: 20040226102901.GA14964 () pc5 ! i ! 0x5 ! de
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* Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> [2004-02-25 20:17 -0800]:
> It would be nice if one could specify a directory to the mailboxes
> directive instead of a list of mailboxes. For years, I've used the
> following construct:
> 
> mailboxes ! `find ~/mail -type f -maxdepth 1  -not -name '.*' -printf '%p ' `
> 
> It accomplishes most of what I want, but is messy because it won't
> respond to new mailboxes until mutt is restarted. I find myself
> periodically hitting tab in the mailbox list to see if my MDA has
> created any new mailboxes in ~/mail (since it does this about every
> day for me). The reason why I don't just use the directory listing
> mode all the time is that mutt won't indicate new mail (with 'N')
> in this mode and that feature is indispensable.

You could use a macro which executes unmailboxes *, your mailboxes
command from above and then shows you the list.

Nicolas


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