forgot to mention all the players: debian squeeze(stable) exim4 fetchmail procmail gnome-desktop Mutt
with an absolute minimum of special tweeking of what net-inst puts on disk. The correct answer to my question could well involve doing something about some other player(s). I have been using Mutt for several years. I recently had a major failure on my desktop machine, and purchased a new (to me) replacement. The hard drives from the old machine and the data on them survived the failure. I have put them into boxes that turn them into USB drives and have all my old configuration files for Mutt, fetchmail, and procmail. But things are not going well. I want to receive my mail into a different place while I debug, so the question in the Subject: line. How do I change ~/Mail to something else like for instance ~/mail ? TIA -- Paul E Condon <pecon...@mesanetworks.net>