On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 10:15:42AM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > This would be okay if all my mail was delivered to that spool file, but it > isn't. Fetchmail hands off (internet) mail to maildrop, which puts in my > spool file at /home/paulf/Mail/in. That's where mutt thinks my spool file > is. Only mail generated by the system or cron jobs is delivered to > /var/mail/paulf. And I'd like that mail to end up instead in > /home/paulf/Mail/in.
Then it depends on what program is doing the local delivery. If it's some member of the sendmail family (including exim??) then you might be able to configure it by creating a ~/.forward file. I don't know maildrop. You'll have to read its docs to see how to control it.
