Hi Suresh,
> 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? :)
Thank you for taking the time to explain this to me; now I understand what mbox is
for.:-)
Now I see, as I guess you did, too, why I didn't have a clue on the usefulness of
mbox: I run a stand-alone laptop, which I connect to my ISP only a few times a day.
And I know what quotas are (read a brief description when prompted by the Slackware
installer whether I wanted to include support for them), but as you may guess I don't
really use them.
mbox is there for people who use "real" *nix systems with many users and therefore
restrictions on the harddrive space they may use, which has nothing to do with my case.
Anyway, I will follow your tip and set move=yes, because this way, when mutt starts, I
will only see new messages, making navigation easier, and will have all others
automatically stored in mbox. I think I will find this useful.
Once again, thank you for teaching me this. :-)
Cheers,
Manuel
> >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? :)
>
> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian | sureshr at staff.juno.com
> A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur
> coat.
>
