Manuel Arriaga proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>But you must admit that the two Mail-(User/Admin)-HOWTOS are very poor: I actually
>read them, but the Admin one only teaches you how to setup qmail (I went for postfix,
>which has great- and thourough :-) - docs and works flawlessly for me) and the
>User-HOWTO only teaches you basic nagivation inside of mutt, how to set the env
>variables EDITOR/VISUAL, etc. I didn't find any reference to this mailbox that mutt
>automatically creates and suggests you move your read messages into in the mutt
>manual, but perhaps that's my fault.
they are a bit arcane, I admit :)
>I only wonder why mutt suggests that I put my read messages into /manel/mbox, and the
>default answer is "no"; all my mailboxes are stored in /home/manel/Mail/, and mbox is
>in /home/manel... that's why I ask whether it is special in any way.
To save mailbox quota and disk space. If you have plenty, you can
dispense with this.
>And could I use procmail to do that? I thought that procmail only sorted the incoming
>mail as it arrived, not after I read some messages and left others untouched.
right. I thought you wanted to sort your incoming mails into folders, so
suggested procmail. Even with mails in a folder, you can write a script
to pipe it to procmail :)
>Why does mbox have a special status (stored directly in the home dir, at the end mutt
>suggests you move all your read messages into it,etc)?
Because the home directory can be hosted on a totally different machine
from where your mail directory is located.
On a standalone linux box connected over a dialup this is trivial - not
when you are telneted into your mailbox which gives you just an 1 mb quota
...
got it? :)
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