On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 03:40:37PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > hmm interesting...I have always used mbox format...I think I looked at maildir > once...
I like maildir because I occasionally lost mail with mbox. > I have a much more simple setup :) > I just have ~/mail for all of my incomming mail mailboxes...and > ~/mail/read/ for all my mboxes of mail that has been read already and > I let mutt sort out what mail has been read and what hasn't. > maybe it is time to revise my system a bit... I have ~/.mail, in that is everything including INBOX/, my standard place for new mail (I don't like it as ~/Maildir/) and all my lists. I don't have read messages moved out of the boxes because pine didn't and I learned to handle mass amounts of mail in pine long ago.. > BTW its sortt of another topic (ok completly) but...in mutt > what is the definition of = or + in a mailbox name? > I had the darndest time setting it up to tell it which files are incomming and > which read mail should be moved to...I got it finnaly but I couldnever > find a good definition of the differecne and what they actually > mean > this all reminds me...I was working on a project involving mail...I must > resserect that.,.. + and = both mean folders dir, in my case: ## Note pine uses by default ~/mail--I changed this to something hidden ## on my system so it wouldn't show up in ls. set folder=~/.mail # where I keep my mailboxes ## this is NORMALLY /var/spool/mail/user--I use a maildir and all, so it ## can't be that. Since I don't want it showing in ~, I put it in with my ## other mail in ~/.mail and called it INBOX to look like pine kinda.. set spoolfile='+INBOX' # where my new mail is located
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