findmaildirs

This is a very simple utility to be used with mutt to simplify automatic mailboxes management.

It scans given directory for maildir-type mailboxes and prints list of them in mutt-compatible format, so its output may be used for `mailboxes' configuration directive of mutt.

Usecase

For example, you have a bunch of maildirs:

~/.mail
    inbox
        cur
        new
        tmp
    sent
        cur
        new
        tmp
    maillists
        lkml
            cur
            new
            tmp
        freebsd
            announce
                cur
                new
                tmp
            ports
                cur
                new
                tmp

to make these available in mutt, you need following in your .muttrc:

set mbox_type=Maildir
set folder="~/.mail"

mailboxes +inbox +sent +maillists/lkml +maillists/freebsd/ports \
          +maildirs/freebsd/announce

it's a pain to manage manually, especially of you have many mailboxes and even more painful if you have mailboxes created automatically by e.g. procmail.

This little utility manages it for you so you can just use:

mailboxes `findmaildirs ~/.mail`

Though it's extremely simple task and you could use simple find | sed pipeline instead, this utility acts a bit more clever and doesn't descend into subdirectories of mailboxes (cur, new and tmp) which may noticeably slow down mutt startup if there are many mail messages.

Installation

No required library dependencies. Just run

make && make install

Makefile honours CC, CFLAGS, PREFIX (/usr/local by default) and DESTDIR.

Author

• Dmitry Marakasov amdmi3@amdmi3.ru

Contributors

• Pierre-Yves Chibon

License

2-clause BSD, see COPYING.