Re: New Mail Sent to different mailboxes

[Dan Lipofsky]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 02:47:57PM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote:
>       Argh! I despise procmail, yes its powerfull, and can do alot, but
> it's severly anoying. I think it _IS_ a mail clients job to do filtering,
> after all, it checks the /var/spool/mail/<username> for new mail and drops
> in in your inbox, if it drops it in the inbox, why not instead drop it in
> some other box and let you know?

It does not drop anything in your inbox.  /var/spool/mail/<username>
_IS_ your inbox.  The mail is already there before the mail client
starts, and it is there after the mail client exits, unless you tell
it to save it elsewhere.
- Dan