Suresh,
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.
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.
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.
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)?
Best regards,
Manuel
>
> >Sorry if all my questions seemed unpolite; but please understand that I am just a
>home user (in real life I study Economics, not computer science) and won't be taking
>any courses just to send/receive email at home.
>
> No, definitely not impolite ... I just suggested that it would help you if
> you did this first ...
>
> Try any of the unix for dummies books first and then go to the howtos on
> http://www.linuxdocs.org :)
>
