[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#838992: mutt: using mutt, will not default to home mail directory: "c", "?" with "set folder" remains in /var/mail

[Paul Slootman]

Possibly related:

After upgrading to 1.7.2-1 from 1.5.something last weekend, I noticed
that hitting 'c' <tab> sometimes shows the contents of /var/mail instead
of the contents of ~/Mail as it used to.

I've since found out that if hitting 'c' and <tab> is the first thing
you do after starting mutt, the behaviour is like it used to be:
repeated tabs switch between showing the subscribed folders and the
total contents of ~/Mail.  However, if you hit 'c', <tab>, 'q', <enter>
(you didn't see any folders you wanted to change to) and then again
hit 'c' and <tab> now you see the contents of /var/mail instead?!

I.e. the behaviour changes if you abort the 'c' action, which is very
unexpected.


Paul