Aravind --
...and then Gottipati Aravind said...
% Sometime around Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 08:53:25AM +0200, clemensF said:
% >
% > where to find new mail. no mistakes, works always (version 1.0.1).
%
% That sucks! you have 1.0.1 and it works andI have 1.2 and it still
Don't worry; it will work once you get the bugs (er, user errors)
tweaked :-)
% doesn't work. oh well.. like "Mikko Hanninen" pointed out in the earlier
% mails.. I guess something is messing up the "timestamps" on my folders
That's most likely.
% and thats the reason mutt does not recognize my new mail files. Well I
% tried changing my muttrc so that it looks like yours.. I put in that !
% sign to say its incoming mail, but it still doesn't recognize it..
% either its the timestamp thats messed up or I am too tired and doing it
% wrong.. This is how my muttrc looks like. I will check it again tomorrow
% morning and try to make it work.
Well, I see a little problem here...
%
% set folder=~/mail
% mailboxes ! `echo $folder/*`
% source ~/.addressesmutt
You don't have $spoolfile set, so if it's not /var/spool/mail/$USER (or
maybe /var/mail/$USER if that's what your system wants to use and mutt
was able to pick that up at configure time) then '!' won't make any
difference.
The biggest kicker is that I don't think that muttrc variables, like
$folder, are available to subshells. What your mailboxes setting
actually works out to, I'll bet a twinkie, is
mailboxes `echo /*`
and that probably doesn't do you any good :-)
Here's how my .mutt/muttrc looks for this bit:
# set spoolfile=""
set folder="~/Mail"
#mailboxes =F.* ### why doesn't this work??
mailboxes $MAIL `echo $HOME/Mail/F.*`
As you can see, I don't have to set $spoolfile because the configuration
picked it up. I set $folder just to be safe; I dunno if I really need to
or not. I had originally tried using mutt expandos (the "=") in my
mailboxes line, but eventually had to use the old echo format -- and had
to point to $HOME/Mail instead of $folder or = when I did.
%
% And all my mailing list files are in that mail directory, so that can't
% go wrong. and my spool file is the default spool file, I didn't change
% it. oh well.. tomorrow!
HTH & HAND :-)
%
% thank you
% Aravind
:-D
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