Sometime around Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 07:06:01AM -0400, David T-G said:
> 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/$USER if that's what your system wants to use and mutt
> was able to pick that up at configure time) then '!' won't make any
> difference.
well.. my spoolfile is the default /var/spool/mail/$USER and mutt
recognizes it just fine, so I dont think I need to be messing with that.
> 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 /*`
You were right about that. I did a "c<TAB><TAB> and it listed all the
files in / :) , well I changed that now and it lists the files I thought
it should, as the mailbox files.
And now I even turned off the shells mail notification. and still it
doesn't work! and this is my muttrc.
#my muttrc
set folder=~/mail
mailboxes `echo ~/mail/*` # this works! I checked it :)
folder-hook =* set sort=threads
