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Let's say I am in mutt, exploring "c" and "?" and am now looking at this screen:

y:Exit  c:Chdir  m:Mask  ?:Help
 1     IMAP                                  ../
 2     IMAP                                  Boring
 3     IMAP                                  Drafts
 4     IMAP                                  Junk

and let's say Boring is INBOX.Boring, Drafts is INBOX.Drafts, etc.

So how might I navigate into just plain INBOX, without having to quit mutt and restart?

OK, I hit RET on the first item, and now see

y:Exit  c:Chdir  m:Mask  ?:Help
 1     IMAP +                                INBOX.

But hitting RET on that just gets me to the previous screen. How do I open that INBOX to see the mail in it, but without using the easy solution of just quitting mutt and starting again? Other keys didn't help.

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From that navigation screen (which I assume you got to by c?) you can press q to quit it and return to the mailbox you currently have open.

If you're in a mailbox looking at messages (not at the folder navigation screen) and want to go to the "new mail" (incoming) mailbox, then c!.

http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#shortcuts lists a number of short-cuts for mailboxes.

! your $spoolfile (incoming) mailbox

> your $mbox file

< your $record file

^ the current mailbox

- or !! the file you've last visited

~ your home directory

= or + your $folder directory

@alias to the default save folder as determined by the address of the alias

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  • But if I have navigated to a second folder, then I can only "q" back to that second folder. So let's face it, I'll really have to exit mutt to get back into INBOX in such a case. Oh well, not the end of the world. Commented Nov 10 at 6:41
  • You q back to that second folder, then c! to get to $spoolfile Commented Nov 10 at 12:18
  • Ah! For me not c! but c=INBOX. That finally worked, at least for my IMAP situation. Thanks! Commented Nov 10 at 17:48
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    @DanJacobson In your .muttrc try adding set spoolfile=imaps://my-imap-host.example.com/INBOX. Then restart mutt and see if c! works. If that doesn't work, then also add set folder=imaps://my-imap-host.example.com and again restart, and try again. Commented Nov 11 at 17:27
  • set spoolfile worked. Thanks. Commented Nov 11 at 21:14

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