After having discovered macros I came up with the following solution for moving mail from /var/mail/jatmin to ~/INBOX.
macro index,pager G "\ <enter-command>unset wait_key<enter>\ <shell-escape>\ if [[ -s /var/mail/$USER ]]; then\ cat /var/mail/$USER >> ~/INBOX;\ echo -n > /var/mail/$USER;\ fi<return>\ <enter-command>set wait_key<enter>\ <fetch-mail>" "fetch local and pop3 mail" This seems to do what I want. It is a hack, and I am not quite sure whether it is safe (therefore my version within the if-statement looks like cp /var/mail/$USER ~/=var=mail=$USER-backup;\ cp ~/INBOX ~/INBOX-backup;\ cat /var/mail/$USER >> ~/INBOX;\ echo -n > /var/mail/$USER;\ echo There has been local e-Mail!;\ sleep 2;\ for the time being to have some backup). However, it's ok for me. Cheers, Josef. On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:30:29AM +0100, Josef Atmin wrote: > > 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.
