Simon White wrote: > > I have looked in the FAQ and Googled, but I haven't found a solution > to my problem. > > Mutt has generated a file "mbox" in my home directory, and it is 126Mb > after less than 24 hours of using mutt. I use IMAP to my mail server, > and on the mail server my inbox is just 6Mb.
perhaps you want to put: set move=no in your .muttrc? by default, this is 'ask-yes' - so presumably mutt said 'move 5 billion messages from /var/mail/you to mbox', and you said 'y'. if you want to put them back into your inbox, you could stick the file 'mbox' on top of the file '/var/mail/you' or wherever local mail comes in. you could also do: mv mbox mail/oldinbox (assuming ~/mail is where your IMAP folders are located). that's a pretty large inbox anyway so perhaps you should do some cleaning :> w
