Neomutt: "Create is only supported for IMAP mailboxes"

[asakura42]

I use Luke Smith's build of Neomutt (https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard/) and it uses isync to download mail. And I like to create folders for every type of mail (hello OCD 😀). But when I try to create new folder inside NeoMutt (printing c?C for example) it fails and writes "Create is only supported for IMAP mailboxes". But this configuration didn't use POP3. I dunno what's wrong. So now I create new folder with mkdir -p ~/.local/share/mail/[email protected]/Folder/{cur,new,tmp} and adding this folder to .muttrc file of my account which is BORING

How can I create folders inside NeoMutt?

[ngortheone]

Luke's setup uses local Maildir for neomutt, and a separate tool (mbsync) is used to download IMAP contents to your local disk.
Neomutt does not have direct connection to IMAP in this scenario. So your approach is in the right direction.

I recommend doing 3 things.
1) A macro to auto-discover nested Maildirs in your mail directory. Something along the lines:

mailboxes `for file in ~/.local/var/mail/main/*; do \
  box=$(basename "$file"); \
  if [ ! "$box" = '.' \
      -a ! "$box" = '..' \
      -a ! "$box" = ".notmuch" \
      -a ! "$box" = '.customflags' \
      -a ! "$box" = '.subscriptions' ]; then \
    echo -n "\"=$box\" "; \
  fi; \
done`

I use this snippet myself.

2) Have another macro to create local folders. Sorry, don't have one ready (share it if you end up writing it!)

3) make sure mbsync/isync is setup to support two-way sync, so that next time you sync mail your new folders are uploaded to IMAP server (you'd have to read mbsync manual in order to get the details straight)

[brunnre8]

that's https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/2701 and I should start moving my behind...

[asakura42]

for file in ~/.local/var/mail/main/*; do \

@ngortheone, you can do it easier:

find ~/.local/share/mail/[email protected]/* -maxdepth 0 -type d | sed 's!.*/!!;s/^/"=/;s/$/"/' | tr '\n' ' '

[ngortheone]

@asakura42 yeah, I didn't spend much time thinking about that macro when I wrote it. It gets the job done for me. But thanks for improvement, I'll take it in.

[gahr]

I'll close this as the feature is being tracked in #2701 already. Thanks.