On 6-02-2009, at 10h 30'29", Josef Atmin wrote about "How can I get mail from
/var/mail/jatmin to my spoolfile ~/INBOX ?"
>
> 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 have my maibox in file located in $HOME/Mail by simply setting the
MAIL variable. I use tcsh so this goes in my .login:
setenv MAIL $HOME/Mail/Inbox
for bash you may need to have this in .profile or similar:
MAIL=$HOME/Mail/Inbox
export $MAIL
Then, in my .procmailrc config file, I also set the default to the
same file. Here is the head of my $HOME/.procmailrc file:
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #make sure it exists
Mail=$MAILDIR
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Inbox #completely optional
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #recommended
EGREP=/bin/egrep
FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
:0
* ^From ....@some string.*
$DEFAULT
The first setting tells mutt (and other applications) were to look for
new e-mails. The second tell were the mail should be delivered.
For a easier solution move /var/spool/mail/Inbox to your file of
choise and then make a symlink from that file back to
/var/spool/mail/Inbox .
Good luck,
Ionel
