Hello mutt users, I am new to mutt and cannot figure out how to move mail from my local spoolfile /var/mail/jatmin (or /var/spool/mail/jatmin) to my mutt $spoolfile ~/INBOX when I press 'G' (or automatically).
I need this for the following reason. Since I work in different cities, I use different computers in different domains. I synchronize my home directories with unison (a great tool btw). I receive external email via a pop server and local mail via /var/mail/jatmin. For security reasons I want the local mail to stay local and not forward it to my pop server. I also cannot forward it to my ~/INBOX file, because of the synchronization issue (I would get modified files on different machine and would have to merge the different versions of INBOX each time I synchronize my home directories). I also want to avoid to set the mutt $spoolfile to /var/mail/jatmin because I need all my current mail in my home directory, again because of the synchronization issue, and I don't want to visit /var/mail/jatmin each time I want to check whether I have new local mail. So I would like to configure mutt such that the 'G' command not only fetches mail from the pop server but also from /var/mail/jatmin. Is there any way I can do this? I have found nothing in the documentation. The question came up on the mailing list previously, but the solution suggested was to set $spoolfile to /var/mail/jatmin and maybe $mbox to ~/INBOX. But this is not what I want, because it is quite cumbersome. I also know about the 's' commant to save a mail in a different mbox, but that is cumbersome as well. I want an elegant solution. Best regards, Josef.
