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List:       mutt-users
Subject:    IMAP maildir folder `not selectable'
From:       Manoj Kummini <mkummini () cmi ! ac ! in>
Date:       2012-07-04 7:23:54
Message-ID: 20120704071154.GA12951 () cmi ! ac ! in
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Dear mutt-users,

I'm trying to read my office email using mutt through IMAP. On my remote
machine, my mail is stored under ~/Mail in maildir format in many
subdirectories. When I connect from my local host to my remote host using,
I'm able to read the INBOX and send mail, but when I try to change to any
of the maildir directories inside ~/Mail, I get an error 
    =Mail/<dirname> is not a selectable mailbox.

For saving postponed messages and sent-mail, I specified two files, but
despite my setting mbox_type to maildir --- see below --- the files are in
mbox format, saved under ~/Mail in the remote machine.

I tried to search mailing lists for a solution, but I was unable to find
them. If anyone knows a fix, I'd be happy to learn it.

Thank you.
Manoj.

Here is the output of `mutt -v` followed by the lines in my muttrc.

Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

System: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic (x86_64)
ncurses: ncurses 5.9.20110404 (compiled with 5.9)
libidn: 1.23 (compiled with 1.23)
hcache backend: tokyocabinet 1.4.37
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
+DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL  +USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  +DL_STANDALONE  +USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK   
+USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  +USE_SMTP  
-USE_SSL_OPENSSL  +USE_SSL_GNUTLS  +USE_SASL  +USE_GSS  +HAVE_GETADDRINFO  
+HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX  
+HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_START_COLOR  +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  +HAVE_BKGDSET  
+HAVE_CURS_SET  +HAVE_META  +HAVE_RESIZETERM  
+CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP  +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME  +CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME  
-EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT  
+ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  +COMPRESSED  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET  +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR  
+HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  +HAVE_LIBIDN  +HAVE_GETSID  +USE_HCACHE  
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
MIXMASTER="mixmaster"
To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev@mutt.org>.
To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/.


Here are the lines from my muttrc

# I use ssh -L 1234:localhost:993 <remote-host>
set spoolfile="imaps://127.0.0.1:1234/INBOX"
set folder="imaps://127.0.0.1:1234/Mail"
set mbox_type=maildir
mailboxes +Mail

set record=+macondo_current
set postponed =+macondo_postponed

set imap_list_subscribed = no
set imap_authenticators = "gssapi:cram-md5:login" 
set imap_pass = ""
set imap_passive = yes
set imap_servernoise = yes
#set imap_home_namespace = ""

#set entropy_file = ""
#et ssl_usesystemcerts = yes
set ssl_use_sslv3 = yes
set ssl_use_tlsv1 = yes
#set imap_force_ssl = yes
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