[mew-int 2277] Re: Simple newbie question

Xiaohui Lu lu.xiaohui at example.com
Fri Feb 23 04:00:51 JST 2007


On 2/22/07, Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats at example.com> wrote:
>
> On February 21, 2007, [mew-int 2274],
> lu.xiaohui (at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > As a new user of MEW, I'm trying to convert from Mutt. Is there anyway
> to
> > configure MEW so that retrieved messages are stored in mbox format
> instead
> > of maildir? It seems to me mew-mbox-command-arg is only for where to get
> the
> > messages, not for saved ones, correct?
>
> Yes, Mew doesn't handle mbox directly.  Mails in mbox should be
> retrieved to MH-like folders such as ~/Mail/inbox for Mew.
>
> > and where can I find more
> > documentation on settings such as this? in the manual there's only
> > mentioning of '-u -d' without explanation.
>
> See also the manual of incm (type `M-! man incm RET' in Emacs).
>
> --
> Tatsuya Kinoshita
>


Thanks Tatsuya-san, I have another question: how to tell incm to retrieve
from more than one local mailboxes? I'm using procmail to automatically
separate mails into different local mailboxes, I'd like to tell MEW to
retrieve them all. Is it possible?

Xiaohui Lu
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