Other Mail Folders

You are probably going to have folders in which you organize your mail, and this will be in your home directory, so include this location on the mailbox line as well. Let's say you have a directory in your home directory called Mail, within which you have lots of subfolders. You would have one of the following lines in your .muttrc. The first example is for IMAP folders on a server; the second example is for mail stored locally (which is mutt's default).

set folder="imap://myfirstisp.com/INBOX"  
#This is for IMAP folders on a server

set folder="/home/randymon/MAIL" 
#This is for mail folders stored on my local machine