Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 23 May 2000:
> >Sorry to interfer in this tread too, but what is the purpose of mbox?
>
> All read mails will be moved to this folder if you say set move=yes in
> your muttrc (it will ask you politely first, of course) :)
Actually, to be specific, Mutt will only ask if you use the ask-yes
or ask-no value for the $move quadoption. If you set it to either
yes or no, it'll act accordingly without prompting -- like with any
quadoption.
Just thought I'd put a clarification note about this before someone gets
confused. :-)
As for my take on what the mbox is for, some people prefer to keep read
emails but still want to have their incoming mailbox not cluttered by
old emails. The $mbox is the folder where old, read emails from the
incoming mail folder get moved after reading -- they're still
accessible, but the incoming folder is then kept for just incoming new
and unread emails.
I personally prefer to set just move=no and as a result deal with the
700 mail inbox with all sorts of old junk in it possibly from year(s?)
back. :-)
Regards,
Mikko
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