Re: [Sheflug] Re: Mutt and Mail Folders

[Rob Andrews <rob [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 10:58, Richard wrote:
> >   set folder=~/mail
> > 
> > To specify the directory the mailboxes are in.
> > 
> >   mailboxes /var/mail/nine +inbox2 +inbox3 +inbox4
> > 
> > Specify the locations of mailboxes to check for new mail upon startup
> > and check interval.
> So, what you mean is that you've set up your mailboxes under /var/mail/.*
> wherever and that works fine ? :)  I'd like to stay with /home/user/mbox if
> I can.  That's if I stay with Mutt.

Tilde (~) denotes 'insert home directory here'. Therefore
~/mail/=$HOME/mail/.

The 'mailboxes' line bears *no* resemblance to your mailboxes at all. It
simply tells mutt what boxes to check for *new* mail (which
automatically get focus when you use 'c' to change folder).

In this example, all of my stored mailboxes are in /home/nine/mail/,
with my incoming mail spool being /var/mail/nine.

> It's a nice mail app but I'm so used to Pine now that it would be good to
> stay with that if I can.

The source is in Debian's non-free repository, make sure you fetch
build-dep before building the package.

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