For me, this was documented in the qmail docs, don't know where it would be documented on your system. Anyway, you need a / after the name to tell mutt that it's dealing with a maildir. So, delete whatever mutt created and complained about, and create your maildirs with maildirmake. Greg On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:58:19AM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi there. Where is this documented? I don't remember reading about the > extra / to distinguish the fact that Mutt is reading a Maildir? > -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org