Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> yeah -- i just figured out that folder names are relative to $HOME, not
> $HOME/Mail.
Actually, folder names are relative to your current working directory. It
just so happens that most people start mutt while they're in $HOME.
> do you happen to know offhand how to change the default directory to look in
> for mail folders? if you know it offhand, cool. if not, i can RTFM.
Please get in the habit of RTFMing before asking an easily answered
question in front of thousands of people. :)
Unfortunately you can't make folder names relative to $HOME/Mail with a
setting in .muttrc. The best you can do is "set folder = ~/Mail", and
then get in the habit of prepending "=" or "+" before each folder name
(those characters are shortcuts for the default mail folder; RTFM :).
Or you could devise an ugly hack to get what you want-- put $HOME/bin
in your path (before /usr/bin), and create a $HOME/bin/mutt with the
following contents:
#!/bin/sh
cd $HOME/Mail
exec /usr/bin/mutt
